Is there a backdoor in Truecrypt? (2010)

> Very few people compile the Windows binaries from source; it is exceedingly difficult to generate binaries from source that match the binaries provided by Truecrypt (due to compiler options, etc.)

I don't know if Tor considers itself hard to compile, but they recently announced the intent to avoid this issue through deterministic builds[1], so it was interesting to see this mentioned here for TrueCrypt.

[1]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-o...

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2381498