The first round of results are in, and so far TrueCrypt, the popular open-source encryption program, has a relatively clean bill of health. Security firm iSec Partners recently carried out the first ...

How secure is TrueCrypt, the open source disk encryption system used by many as a line of defense against snoops (and maybe spooks)? For a long time, the answer was “we don’t know.” Now, thanks to an ...

The second, larger audit of TrueCrypt 7.1a has concluded, with no sign of the software-breaking flaw that its creators warned was there. What's this mean for the future of the code and the program's ...

The source code of TrueCrypt, a popular disk encryption tool, is not the most polished work of programming, but it has no critical flaws or intentional backdoors, security testers concluded in a ...

I wonder if the crypto experts working this are going to consider unlikely brute force scenario stuff (Like supercomputer decryption) It would be nice to see something like "If a government were ...

For several years, TrueCrypt was the gold standard in PC disk decryption suites. That changed nearly 18 months ago, when the individuals who developed the software abruptly quit. The developers ...

Not long after news spread that TrueCrypt was shutting down, enough theories were circulating about what happened to fill an episode of the TV show 24. To recap: The developers of the TrueCrypt ...

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 ...

You picked a really terrible example to pontificate about. Professionals have been auditing TrueCrypt for a while now. The project to thoroughly audit it was first announced October of 2013. A ...

TrueCrypt, the popular open-source encryption program, on Wednesday unexpectedly recommended that users drop its product and shift to Microsoft’s Bitlocker. TrueCrypt’s Web page redirected itself to a ...

These days you can’t be too careful about protecting your privacy. No wonder people are turning to such solutions as TrueCrypt, which describes itself as “free open source on-the-fly encryption.” It’s ...