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 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 ...

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 ...

In a move that appears designed to provoke widespread questions, the anonymous managers of the TrueCrypt open-source encryption project abruptly pulled the plug on the effort without explanation. A ...

A new security audit has found critical vulnerabilities in VeraCrypt, an open-source, full-disk encryption program that’s the direct successor of the widely popular, but now defunct, TrueCrypt. Users ...