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Is there a backdoor in Truecrypt? (2010)
- wodow 13y agoEarlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2381498 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2381498
- aprescott 13y ago> Very few people compile the Windows binaries from source; it is exceedingly difficult to generate binaries from source that match the binaries provided by Truecrypt (due to compiler options, etc.) I don't know if Tor considers itself hard to compile, but they recently announced the intent to avoid this issue through deterministic builds[1], so it was interesting to see this mentioned here for TrueCrypt. [1]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-one-cyberwar-and-global-compromise https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-o...