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The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) announced over the weekend that people involved in the VeraCrypt security audit have noticed that at least four emails have mysteriously disappeared and never reached their destination during the past days. At the start of August, OSTIF announced that following sponsorships from DuckDuckGo and VikingVPN, they've decided to hire French security vendor QuarksLab to carry out a free security audit for the VeraCrypt project, an open-source freeware utility used for on-the-fly encryption (OTFE). As the security audit started, on August 13, OSTIF announced on its blog suspicions about a third-party intercepting emails between the three parties: OSTIF, the VeraCrypt team, and QuarksLab. Security audit may yeild info on undisclosed & unpatched 0-days VeraCrypt, like its predecessor the TrueCrypt project, is used all o... ...