---
id: 4536
title: "Security Assessment of VeraCrypt: fixes and evolutions from TrueCrypt"
source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com
source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/security-assessment-of-veracrypt-fixes-and-evolutions-from-truecrypt.html"
published_at: "2016-10-16T22:00:00Z"
tags: ["security-audit", "cryptography", "disk-encryption", "ostif", "veracrypt", "truecrypt"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4536"
lang: en
---

# Security Assessment of VeraCrypt: fixes and evolutions from TrueCrypt

## Summary

VeraCrypt 1.18 security assessment: verifying fixes inherited from TrueCrypt and auditing new features (UEFI, extra ciphers); a critical cryptography flaw introduced in 1.18 was fixed in 1.19.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com
- **Published:** 2016-10-16T22:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/security-assessment-of-veracrypt-fixes-and-evolutions-from-truecrypt.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4536