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TrueCrypt: Flaw in Container Creation Suspected

posted by martyb on Friday May 30 2014, @08:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the some-settling-of-contents-may-have-occurred dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

According to a German researcher, Mattias Schlenker, we are to expect that the reason for TrueCrypt's recent shutdown is not a National Security Letter, but a serious security flaw in how TC container files are created on Windows.

He expects the flaw to become public within a week.

What gives this chap some credibility is that he's one of the developers of "desinfec't", a Knoppix-based live Linux that comes with several virus scanners and is distributed by well-renowned German computer magazine c't (whose mother company/publishing house, Heise, hosts the forum where he made his announcement).

Link to his original German posting: http://www.heise.de/security/news/foren/S-Re-Warum -TrueCrypt-nicht-in-Desinfec-t-enthalten-ist/forum -280432/msg-25289876/read/

See our earlier coverage: TrueCrypt Discontinued, Compromised.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday May 31 2014, @11:08PM

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 31 2014, @11:08PM (#49729)
    Although I'd admit to the topic being extremely fuzzy to me... I think I get what your link is saying, at least in a crude-Commander-Riker-sorta-way.

    I appreciate it, thank you.
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