OpenSSL Security Audit Ready to Start

Funding from the Core Infrastructure Initiative has helped the maintainers of OpenSSL, one of the Internet’s most-deployed pieces of open source software, begin to get the crypto implementation on its feet. Despite its ubiquity, OpenSSL has historically been under-funded and under-resourced, thou...

TrueCrypt Audit Cryptanalysis Handed Off to NCC Group

The stagnant TrueCrypt audit stirred to life in the last 24 hours with the announcement that the second phase of the audit, tasked with examining the cryptography behind the open source disk encryption software, will begin shortly. NCC Group’s Cryptography Services has been contracted to do the...

Vulnerability in OpenSSL - SRP buffer overrun

A SRP buffer overrun was found. A malicious client or server can send invalid SRP parameters and overrun an internal buffer. Only applications which are explicitly set up for SRP use are affected. Found by Sean Devlin and Watson Ladd Cryptography Services, NCC Group...