Not long after news spread that TrueCrypt was shutting down, enough theories were circulating about what happened to fill an episode of the TV show 24. To recap: The developers of the TrueCrypt ...

The sudden demise of the encryption freeware TrueCrypt has left users and security experts to consider a couple of mysteries. First, what the heck happened to it? Second, and probably more important ...

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 ...

These days you can’t be too careful about protecting your privacy. No wonder people are turning to such solutions as TrueCrypt, which describes itself as “free open source on-the-fly encryption.” It’s ...

The second, larger audit of TrueCrypt 7.1a has concluded, with no sign of the software-breaking flaw that its creators warned was there. What's this mean for the future of the code and the program's ...

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 ...

Unicode, the wonderful extension to to ASCII that gives us gems like “ ”, “⌨”, and “☕”, has had some unexpected security ramifications. The most common problems with Unicode are visual security issues ...

The latest version of popular open-source encryption software TrueCrypt is available for download. The free open-source disk-encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux allows people to ...