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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is something very strange going on with this whole thing. There has to be something that the Truecrypt authors are hiding and not telling anyone about. You just don't go and abandon something ...