Pipe 2Y3 TrueCrypt audit code review: no evulz, low source code quality

TrueCrypt audit code review: no evulz, low source code quality

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Back in October, Kenneth White and Matthew Green kicked off the idea to do a full and complete audit of TrueCrypt, the most popular disk encryption package out there. They raised over $60,000 dollars and 33BTC to this end, and got underway.
The first part of the audit, the in-depth source code review was performed by a security firm and completed April 14 ( report ).
No bogeys found so far (11 medium-to-minor items). The next stage (cryptanalysis) is currently underway.

I'm sure plenty of people are thinking "how about OpenSSL?". At one point: sure. Right now? I'd personally prefer to see this sort of effort going into improving the OpenSSL software.

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2014-04-16 11:43
Audit of TrueCrypt disk encryption software reveals low source code quality
zafiro17@pipedot.org
Back in October 2013, Kenneth White and Matthew Green kicked off the idea to do a full and complete audit of TrueCrypt, the most popular disk encryption package out there. They raised over $60,000 dollars and 33BTC to this end, and got underway.
The first part of the audit, - the in-depth source code review - was performed by a security firm and completed on April 14 of this year ( report ).
The results are interesting to read. No bogeys have been found so far, (though 11 medium-to-minor items) were identified. But the authors did note:
Overall, the source code for both the bootloader and the Windows kernel driver did not meet expected standards for secure code. This includes issues such as lack of comments, use of inse-cure or deprecated functions, inconsistent variable types, and so forth.

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next stage, (cryptanalysis) , has begun and is cuprrocently underwayding.

I'm sure plenty of people are thinking, "hHow about doing the same thing for OpenSSL?". At one point: sure. Right now? I'd personally prefer to see this sort of effort going into improving the OpenSSL software.
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