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By SecureWorld News Team
Tue | Oct 18, 2016 | 9:00 AM PDT

Eight of them are considered to be critical.

The Register Explains:

Security researchers have found eight critical, three medium, and 15 low-severity vulnerabilities in a one month audit of popular encryption platform VeraCrypt.

The audit is the latest in a series prompted by the shock abandoning of TrueCrypt in May 2014 due to unspecified security concerns claimed by the hitherto trusted platform's mysterious authors.

VeraCrypt arose from the ashes of TrueCrypt and added new security features.

Quarkslab senior security researcher Jean-Baptiste Bédrune and senior cryptographer Marion Videau crawled through the VeraCrypt codebase, focussing on version 1.18 of the platform and the DCS EFI Bootloader 1.18 (UEFI), examining new security features introduced since the April 2015 security audit of TrueCrypt.

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