VeraCrypt is a free disk encryption software brought to you by IDRIX (https://www.idrix.fr) and based on TrueCrypt 7.1a.
It adds enhanced security to the algorithms used for system and partitions encryption making it immune to new developments in brute-force attacks. It also solves many vulnerabilities and security issues found in TrueCrypt.
This enhanced security adds some delay ONLY to the opening of encrypted partitions without any performance impact to the application use phase. This is acceptable to the legitimate owner but it makes it much harder for an attacker to gain access to the encrypted data.
All released files are PGP signed with key ID=0x54DDD393, available on key servers and downloadable at https://www.idrix.fr/VeraCrypt/VeraCrypt_PGP_public_key.asc
VeraCrypt can mount TrueCrypt volumes. It also can convert them to VeraCrypt format.
Documentation: https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Documentation.html
FAQ : https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/FAQ.html
Features
- Available for Linux, MacOSX (10.6+) and Windows.
- Increased security and many vulnerabilities fixed compared to TrueCrypt
- Support both UEFI and MBR for Windows system encryption
Project Samples
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Wow, fast responce! Folowing your ideas I have cleaned authorization USB and created it's primary partition with 10MB offset, then marked it by -srm and added gpt_enc to the first (#0) region. And it works! Now I can boot into hidden OS just in seconds! I set DcsBootForce=1 but still I can not boot into decoy os. It is "authorising..." for two minutes and returns "wrong password PIM or hash" with or without authorization USB. Config key order in DcsProp is same as in DcsProp.example I was trying...
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Hi Felis, Step by step, 1. "-srm" is important step. It marks USB. (The mark is calculated BIOS serial and USB serial based => the usb will work for the computer only) 2. security region uses 128K*N+62 sectors => first partition offset of the USB has to be ~1MB 3. SecRegionSearch=1 is correct. It is possible enter password without USB for decoy OS - DcsProp - DcsBootForce=1. 4. Correct. It rmoves menu only. 5. It is possible to save DcsProp to security region (a bit complex but possible) e.g. It...
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Hi Felis, Step by step, 1. "-srm" is important step. It marks USB. (The mark is calculated BIOS serial and USB serial based => the usb will work for the computer only) 2. security region uses 128K*N+62 sectors => first partition offset of the USB has to be ~1MB 3. SecRegionSearch=1 is correct. It is possible enter password without USB for decoy OS - DcsProp - DcsBootForce=1. Note: Marked block device(-srm) has to be the only! (it is used to verify password)
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Hi Felis, Step by step, 1. "-srm" is important step. It marks USB. (The mark is calculated BIOS serial and USB serial based => the usb will work for the computer only) 2. security region uses 128K*N+62 sectors => first partition offset of the USB has to be ~1MB 2. SecRegionSearch=1 is correct. It is possible enter password without USB for decoy OS -
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Hi Alex, Thanks, now I know how to edit DcsProp manually. VeraCrypt -> System settings returns an error for some reason. I was using version 1.21 but after your comment I decided to take version 1.22B4 and start everything from scratch. Also I decided to take a USB stick to repeat every step in the manual exectly as DJ Bonez described to get at least something working. But I failed with no idea how to debug. Here's what happened: After I went through all steps I had no VeraCrypt bootloader in boot...
License
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Works like a charm
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Great successor to TrueCrypt. Thank you! :-)
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The best project for your safety. If you are concerned about your security, you should protect your files with VeraCrypt right now. Totally recommended.
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Security issues from TC and VC audits are released. VC1.19 performance is ++30% for AES vs TX 7.1a. Active development is ongoing as of 2017-06-22. External tools were merged in (expander). Additional algorithms added. Conversion tool is added. Supports old and new volumes. Only issue is that the builds and code are in multiple locations, but the RC/beta builds are only here (not many references here). Also, some links in the binary still point to codeplex, which is end of life.
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I've been a truecrypt user since 2005 and have just moved to VC to grow with its successor and adapt my newer hardware to the VC platform, I waited 3 years and watching it evolve and am pleased they have the moxy to move forward and the community has grown large enough to provide a momentum of support above those of the developers, who would be hard pressed to answer so many queries.