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Should Truecrypt be audited?

Posted by finid on · 4 comments
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Truecrypt is said to be published under an open source license, but in some quarters, its license has not been accepted as a valid open source license. And some of those people believe it has a backdoor.

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djohnston ·
A couple years ago, (or longer), there were claims or insinuations from a former OpenBSD programmer that he had inserted backdoors into the code. Theo and others then did a full audit of the entire base. They found nothing. But, before the audit, they couldn't be 100% sure. And, you can't get more open source than the BSDs.

JaseP ·
Sure you can get more open source than the BSDs,... GPL 3.0...
djohnston ·
I was hoping that statement would generate a comment or two.
mbaehrlxer ·
why? it's just flame bait.

GPL is Free Software, not Open Source. so there!

greetings, eMBee.

(potato, tomato, let's call the whole thing off...)

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