TrueCrypt Audit Stirs Back To Life

by Michael Mimoso February 19, 2015
 
The stagnant TrueCrypt audit stirred to life in the last 24 hours with the announcement that the second phase of the audit, tasked with examining the cryptography behind the open source disk encryption software, will begin shortly.
 
NCC Group’s Cryptography Services has been contracted to do the cryptanalysis of the original TrueCrypt 7.1a version, which is the baseline for newer forks, said Johns Hopkins professor Matthew Green, one of the originators of the movement to have the integrity of the code evaluated.
 
Questions arose as shrapnel from the Snowden revelations flew in all directions about potential backdoors in widely used software, including TrueCrypt, which has been downloaded close to 30 million times. This coupled with the fact that the authors of TrueCrypt have never been publicly revealed added a sense of urgency to the movement
 
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