Horrors of murky TrueCrypt to be probed once more
The gears of the TrueCrypt audit have whirred into life overnight with boffins poised to again probe the open source crypto tool after nearly a year of waiting.
A tiny team will fondle the tool's random number generators, cipher suites and key algorithms in a bid to pull the internet's favourite crypto suite out of the pariah status it attained when its developers claimed it contained unspecified vulnerabilities and recommened users adopt alternatives like Microsoft's BitLocker.
Auditor and crypto boffin Matthew Green says questions were asked about the worth of the project after flaws surfaced last April. "... in the wake of TrueCrypt pulling the plug, there were questions; Was this a good use of folks' time and resources? What about applying those resources to the new TrueCrypt forks that have sprung up," Green says in a post.
