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 ...

Until discontinued under mysterious circumstances last year, the open-source encryption tool TrueCrypt was pretty much the first choice for computer users looking to keep the contents of their hard ...

Reports of TrueCrypt’s flaws were greatly exagerated, if a 77-page report coming out of Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute is anything to go by. The intensive six-month study concludes that the encryption ...

The sudden demise of the encryption freeware TrueCrypt has left users and security experts to consider a couple of mysteries. First, what the heck happened to it? Second, and probably more important ...

Auditors performing a cryptanalysis of TrueCrypt found four vulnerabilities, but zero backdoors in the popular open source encryption software. The results are in from the cryptanalysis phase of the ...

The Win32/Potao malware family has been used for the past five years in covert targeted attacks against the Ukrainian government, served up on occasion by a trojanized Russian version of encryption ...

An effort to search for cryptographic flaws in TrueCrypt, a popular disk encryption program, will resume even though the software was abandoned by its creators almost a year ago. For years TrueCrypt ...

The ongoing audit of the TrueCrypt whole-disk encryption tool used by millions of privacy and security enthusiasts has reached an important milestone—a detailed review of its cryptographic ...

CipherShed and VeraCrypt developers stand ready to step in for TrueCrypt now that the cryptanalysis phase of the audit is complete and no backdoors were discovered. Both open source projects sprung ...

As far as encryption software goes, TrueCrypt may be one of the best open-source gems and least-recognized software offerings on the market. The CRN Test Center considers the utility, now at version 4 ...