5/15/2023 0 Comments Veracrypt 1.19I’ve read the technical notes of the audit and have updated to version 1.19. Now You: Do you use an encryption software? If so which and why? Since it is one of the few remaining TrueCrypt forks or successor projects that is still updated regularly, it may be a good idea to migrate to it if that has not been done already. While there is still work that needs to be done to address the issues that are too complex to be fixed in a short period of time. VeraCrypt security has improved significantly thanks to the audit. The release notes of the new version are posted on the official VeraCrypt project website. VeraCrypt users who are interested in the audit find the technical report here (pdf document). See the tokenpin command line parameter for instance as an example. The documentation has been updated to inform users about potential security issues. The release brings other improvements, for instance a 2.5 times performance increase of the Serpent algorithm on 64-bit systems, EFI system encryption support on 32-bit versions of Windows, and a fix for EFS data access issues on Windows 10. The only way to resolve the issue is to rewrite the AES implementation which takes time. Security researchers have completed the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund-backed audit of encryption platform VeraCrypt and found eight critical, three medium, and 15 low-severity vulnerabilities.This includes for instance a problem with the AES implementation which makes it susceptible for cache-timing attacks. The team behind the popular tool addressed the audit's findings in VeraCrypt 1.19. OSTIF said VeraCrypt 1.9 is safe because most of the the flaws have been addressed. Some vulnerabilities were not addressed in this version, due to the "high complexity for the proposed fixes," but workarounds for those exist. [ Safeguard your data! The tools you need to encrypt your communications and web data.
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