Security researchers from the OSTIF agree to audit open source disk encryption software. VeraCrypt became the most popular open source encryption software used by activists, journalists, and privacy conscious people. OSTIC hired vulnerability researchers from QuarksLab to lead the audit, which would look for zero-day vulnerabilities and other security holes in VeraCrypt’s code. Four PGP-encoded email messages, each sent by independent parties involved in the project, have disappeared without a trace. The team of researchers behind this security audit hopes to go public with their findings in mid-September after reporting all the detected vulnerabilities to its original authors.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/08/veracrypt-security-audit.html