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Why is so important to "know" who is behind TrueCrypt ? They publish the code and you can inspect it and build it yourself if you don't trust the provided binar
by mariusmg 13y ago
Why is so important to "know" who is behind TrueCrypt ? They publish the code and you can inspect it and build it yourself if you don't trust the provided binaries.
- nivla 13y agoThe issue is that the source code is too complex to audit personally. Having no real identity behind it also removes the risk of finger pointing if a backdoor were to be discovered. "There has been no known comprehensive review of the source code by a qualified cryptographer.[46][44] Thorough security code review and testing is hard, tedious, and painstaking work, and very few people have the skills to do it. There was, however, a functional evaluation of the deniability of hidden volumes in an earlier version of TrueCrypt by Schneier et al. that found security leaks." [1] [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truecrypt#Reasonable_paranoia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truecrypt#Reasonable_paranoia
- mariusmg 13y agoIf you go down this line of thinking, you can only trust the code you wrote yourself. Having a couple of dudes publicly recognizing that they wrote TrueCrypt doesn't actually solves anything.
- miopa 13y agoIt's about time then that few qualified cryptographers make an audit. Kickstarter project maybe.