![]() ![]() “Only when unmounted, and no key is kept in memory, can a TrueCrypt volume really be secure.”īodden also warned those who continue to download and use TrueCrypt need to address vulnerabilities that have been uncovered by the previous audit conducted by the Open Crypto Audit Project (OCAP) and by Google’s Project Zero research team. ![]() to get hold of the key material in many situations,” wrote Eric Bodden, a professor at Fraunhofer SIT. “This is because when a TrueCrypt volume is mounted its data is generally accessible through the file system, and with repeated access one can install key loggers etc. In fact, the European Center for Security and Privacy by Design (EC SPRIDE) and Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology wrote TrueCrypt might be safer than previous audits suggest, but cautions that it’s inherently not suitable for securing encrypted data on a running system. The German government’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) is the latest to inspect and analyze the security of the abandoned open source disk encryption software and once again, it was deemed relatively safe for use, in particular for offline storage of data. ![]() TrueCrypt continues to fascinate even though it hasn’t been updated in more than a year and has been cleared of backdoors in more than one extensive audit. ![]()
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