Theory: Borrowing a page from the Lavabit crypto service that former NSA contractor Edward Snowden used, Wednesday’s advisory was what legal practitioners call a “canary,” intended to signal receipt ...

Open source encryption project's website, SourceForge pages defaced with warnings not to use the product due to 'security issues' In what’s been variously described as a hacking attempt, a prank, a ...

Two privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the last TrueCrypt build were discovered by James Forshaw of Google Project Zero, and patched in VeraCrypt. TrueCrypt may be a fond memory for most of its ...

Message from TrueCrypt that it’s being discontinued on SourceForge.net. The abrupt discontinuation of the disk and file encryption freeware TrueCrypt by its secretive software developers has left many ...

Unicode, the wonderful extension to to ASCII that gives us gems like “ ”, “⌨”, and “☕”, has had some unexpected security ramifications. The most common problems with Unicode are visual security issues ...

As much as I liked/respected the TrueCrypt Foundation, the most likely explanation is the most plausible. That is, the developers could not or would not maintain the project going forward, and this is ...