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TrueCrypt audit: Probe’s nearly all the way in … no backdoor hit yet

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Dissent

John Leyden reports:

The first phase of crowd-funded audit of TrueCrypt has turned up several vulnerabilities, but nothing particularly amiss and certainly nothing that looks like a backdoor.

iSEC Partners, which was contracted to carry out the audit by the Open Crypto Audit Project (OCAP), ‪found‬ 11 vulnerabilities in the full disk and file encryption software’s source code, but no “high-severity” issues. The biggest problems identified were four medium-severity flaws, as detailed in a 32-page report on the audit [PDF].

Read more on The Register.

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