TrueCrypt cryptographic audit turns up little to fear<article>
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Most desktop cryptography relies on software created and maintained by corporations, often (not always) based on open standards, but requiring a level of trust in that firm’s ability to resist government efforts to weaken it as well as believing they can validate and audit their own code well enough to find and then repair serious flaws.</p><p>
Open-source projects, whether in the world of free software or other license structures, supposedly had the advantage that anyone could examine the code for flaws or injections.</p><p>
That’s turned out not to be the case, but things are getting better.</p><h2>Truly cryptic</h2>
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TrueCrypt is open-source virtual and full-disk encryption software that remains the only viable multiplatform option one could recommend that wasn’t tied to a company. The independent project was developed by anonymous programmers for a decade; they still aren’t identified. It works in Windows XP and later, many flavors of Linux, and Mac OS X.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2904370/truecrypt-cryptographic-audit-turns-up-little-to-fear.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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TrueCrypt cryptographic audit turns up little to fear
