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Ask HN: Has anyone used LLMs to audit TrueCrypt for backdoors?

Posted by dlphii on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:09AM
from the ask-hn dept.

TrueCrypt was discontinued in 2014 under mysterious circumstances, prompting speculation about possible US government involvement. Now that LLMs can help with source code analysis, has anyone revisited the code and found evidence of a backdoor or other signs of government interference?

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Re:Margaret Hamilton has died on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:52AM (#50002186)

Cannot agree more! What a loss for all CS!

Re:Mistral Large 4 on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @04:56AM (#49990058)

They have published their benchmark. Keen to try it too.

Re:Ask HN: First steps to check the security of PHP web-application? on Thursday November 24, 2016 @09:21AM (#13030421)

Thanks. And if you are given a big piece of source code. And no static/dynamic tools are allowed, only manual review. What should you look at first (PHP based site, authentication for users, online payment, very dynamic web-site).

Ask HN: First steps to check the security of PHP web-application?

Posted by dlphii on Thursday November 24, 2016 @09:05AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Your development team made a web-application and asked you to look for the security. What should be your first steps (both back-end and front-end). Which patterns to search first?

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