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New Post: Resuming interrupted process inconsistency

January 20, 2016, 12:18 am
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I think it started after I encrypted partition and then interrupted the process and deleted it.

After that I made some other actions, but unfortunately I can't remember the exact sequence.

As a result, now, when I try to encrypt another partition I get warning "You had scheduled encryption ..."

However, when I click on "Resume interrupted proccess" I get message that "You don't have interrupted".

So, VeraCrypt sends contradictory messages.

Also, I do not remember that VeraCrypt urged me to finish encryption process right after reboot.

Also, when VeraCrypt shows the warning about unfinished encryption it does not show the list of unfinished disks/partitions.

All of this does not increase confidence and actually it makes fill that VeraCrypt can resume encrypting wrong place and corrupt some data.

I am sure that it is possible to show the list of interrupted disks. You can simply add an unencrypted header that will contain information on whether disk/volume is fully or partially encrypted.
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New Post: PIM not hidden in Expander as in all other places

January 20, 2016, 12:41 am
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Not a big issue. But I think it is better to keep it uniform across the whole application.
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New Post: Optimal time to move mouse

January 20, 2016, 1:05 am
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"Move your mouse as randomly as possible within this window. The longer you move it, the better."

Evidently, user can't keep moving mouse forever. He must stop at some moment. So, user needs to decide how many seconds/minutes is enough.

If you don't tell him he is forced to decide himself.

But user's decision will be a pure guess, while you can program VeraCrypt to determine when it received enough random data. I would do it this way:
  1. I would draw progress bar that would show how many random bits the program already received
  2. The progress moves as user moves the mouse
  3. When progress is less than 256 bits the bar is red
  4. When it is between 256 and 1024 the bar is yellow
  5. Above 1024 the bar is green (there is reserve - we need 256 and received 1024)
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New Post: Quick expanding

January 20, 2016, 1:54 am
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Unless I am missing something:
  1. When I create VeraCrypt volume I have two options: quick formatting (does not write random data) or slow formatting (writes random data).
  2. However, expander only has slow expanding option (write random data).
What about adding quick expanding option (without writing random data)?
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New Post: 64bit version for 64bit Win 7?

January 20, 2016, 2:00 am
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Assume I run a 64bit Win 7.

Do I have to use 64bit VeraCrypt or can I use 32bit VeryCrypt as well?

In other words: Does 32bit VeryCrypt detect the 64bitness and load the 64bit drivers automatically?

Peter
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New Post: Does portable (!) VeraCrypt register automatically drivers at startup?

January 20, 2016, 2:07 am
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When I install VeraCrypt by simply extracting the *.exe setup package then a popup informs me that VeraCrypt app install runs successfully but drivers needs to be registered.

What does that mean?

Do users have to register these drivers in addition manually?

I would have expected that when portable VeraCrypt is started it investigates at first if (*.sys) drivers are already installed. If not VeraCrypt should AUTOMATICALLY registers them.

Is this correct?

Peter
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New Post: 1.17 Beta Release - Feedback or Issues

January 20, 2016, 2:08 am
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Hello!

It was a bit weird for me since I have read these benchmarks before. I'm using Windows 7 32-bits, it's a very old desktop computer with 512MB RAM.

I'll try to do that, but if my memory is OK, it takes about 7 seconds for PIM 500 Whirlpool and about twice the time for SHA-512, about 15 seconds. Before this Beta version, it was about 30 seconds SHA-512 and 40 seconds Whirlpool.


SHA-256 is faster than before but still, on 'normal' setup (without even touching PIM, don't know how many iterations) takes almost the same time or a bit more than PIM 500 Whirlpool, about 7 seconds.

Same happens with a PIM 100 Whirlpool and another with PIM 100 SHA-512 volumes, Whirlpool was faster.


I'm not complaining at all, I though it was rare that Whirlpool was faster and used this thread to talk about it. Your amazing work is very appreciated and this version is great since I wait less time opening volumes. Obviously development should be prioritized to fast computers.


Thank you for your answers and help!
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Commented Unassigned: cmd.exe + CD in folder of VC doesn't work [362]

January 20, 2016, 6:13 pm
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Hello

I have mount a volume in __G:\__

I use CMD.EXE (Windows 7) with administrator

I try this : "cd C:\Program Files\Adobe" : No Problem

I try this : "cd G:\Lumion" : Problem, doesn't work

Any Idea ?
Comments: Woot :D thanks
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New Post: Auto-Lock and Auto-Dismount

January 20, 2016, 8:34 pm
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See the link below for the various settings for Auto-Dismount in the Settings > Preferences.
http://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/technical/thread/d36e6405/#6322/92d4
Anytime a computer loses power unexpectedly can cause corruption to mounted or dismounted volumes. Always backup your data.
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New Post: PIM now taking short time?

January 20, 2016, 10:48 pm
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I have been using VC, stable and beta, it was on December the last time I downloaded VC, which was beta version, BEFORE using beta 1.17-17 or any stable version, my PIM will make the system to boot after several minutes, about 5-6 minutes, NOW that I installed beta 1.17-17, the same PIM will take my system to boot in about 1 - 2 minutes, it is VERY noticeable the short times now it takes to boot,

so my question is, should I be concerned with something ? or beta 1.17.17 hast a PIM improvement to boot faster?

BTW, I have no problems at all with my system taking several minutes to boot.
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New Post: PIM now taking short time?

January 21, 2016, 12:46 am
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Changes between 1.16 and 1.17-BETA17 (18 January 2016) :
All OSs:
    Support UNICODE passwords: all characters are now accepted in passwords (except Windows system encryption)
    Cut mount/boot time by half thanks to a clever optimization of key derivation (found by Xavier de Carné de Carnavalet)

Windows:
    Fix dll hijacking issue affecting installer that allows code execution with elevation of privilege (CVE-2016-1281). Reported by Stefan Kanthak (http://home.arcor.de/skanthak/)
    Sign binaries using both SHA-1 and SHA-256 to follow new Microsoft recommendations.
    Solve issues under Comodo/Kaspersky when running an application from a VeraCrypt volume (Reported and fixed by Robert Geisler)
    Bootloader: Protect password/PIM length by filling the fields to maximum length with '*' after ENTER
    Solve issue with system favorites not being able to be mounted to drive A:
    Solve lost focus issues for after displaying the waiting dialog
    Implement PIM caching, for both system encryption and normal volumes. Add options to activate it.
    Internal rewrite to make VeraCrypt native UNICODE application.
    Workaround to avoid false positive detection by some anti-virus software.
    Hide disconnected network drives in the list of available drives. Add option to make them available for mounting.
    Solve issue that caused in some cases configuration and history XML files to be updated even when not needed.
    Fix leak of path of selected keyfiles in RAM.
    Fix TB unit can't be deselected in VeraCryptExpander.
    Add Alt+i keyboard shortcut for "Use PIM" checkbox.
    Minor GUI and translations fixes.
https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/releases/view/619351









I suggest to read release notes on every version.
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New Post: Can I revert back to TrueCrypt usage after VeraCrypt usage?

January 21, 2016, 1:38 am
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Assume I have a couple of TrueCrypt file containers and external usb hard disk TrueCrypt partitions.

Now I want to evaluate VeraCrypt. As far as I know VeraCrypt is able to access these good old TrueCrypt containers/partitions.

But what if I decide later to revert back to TrueCrypt usage?
Or I want to access these containers fom other TC installations on computers as well.
Can I do this without problems?

I can imagine that VeraCrypt possibly modify/auto-convert irreversibly these old TrueCrypt containers/harddisk so that users cannot go back to TrueCrypt later.

Can you confirm that I can arbitrarily switch from TrueCrypt to VeraCrypt and vice versa
as many times as I like?

Thank you
Peter
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New Post: Optimal time to move mouse

January 21, 2016, 2:36 am
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New Post: Volume size / expanding / shrinking

January 21, 2016, 2:40 am
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Please forgive my ignorance, but at least I searched the FAQs and read the tutorial all the way through as well as all the relevant parts of the documentation before asking this question:

(Note that I haven't downloaded VeraCrypt yet -- I'm trying to learn as much as I can about it before taking the plunge.)

When creating a volume, the user must specify the volume size. Obviously, unless one is clairvoyant and can predict the future, it’s difficult, if not impossible, to know how big you will need it to be. Is it possible to increase or decrease the size of the volume after it’s created? There's nothing in the documentation about this.
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New Post: Can I revert back to TrueCrypt usage after VeraCrypt usage?

January 21, 2016, 3:42 am
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You can use TC containers/partitions in veracrypt (with compatibility mode checked) and go back to TC as long as you don't change the password. After changing the password from veracpryt, truecrypt won't be able to mount and there's no way back (except creating new container and copying data from one to another).

I wasn't sure too, but after some improvements introduced in VC version 1.17 (beta), I'm happy with that and using it daily. I don't feel any difference between veracrypt and truecrypt, except longer mount time, which can be reduced to minimum with optional PIM. It is a good program and Mounir is doing perfect job, VC works flawlessly also under heavy load (torrent and heavy file copying).
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Closed Unassigned: Installer won't launch. [327]

January 23, 2016, 1:55 am
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Hi, I download the installer for Windows, I start it, the UAC start, click ok, then nothing happens. The launcher does nothing. I can see its process, but nothing happens(no dialog, no windows). Even after 15 minutes of waiting with the process of the installer using 16% of CPU in front of me. I use Windows 10 x86_64 last version, but it did on the version before too.
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New Post: ExtFat support in partiton format dialog

January 23, 2016, 3:17 pm
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Would it be possible to add ExtFat support for Veracrypt on Mac and Windows?
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Source code checked in, #5d3e60367cb5e94c1a5168ee937237a16d1e207e

January 23, 2016, 5:41 pm
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Linux/MacOSX: Support K/M/G/T suffixes for --size switch to indicate unit to use for size value (KiloByte, MegaByte, GigaByte and TeraByte respectively)
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Source code checked in, #aa51769c74720ffcaed5946fdf65ae141277743e

January 23, 2016, 5:58 pm
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Linux/MacOSX: update --size entry in command line help text.
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New Post: Hidden OS doesn't boot and displays an error after the decoy system is installed

January 23, 2016, 6:03 pm
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I am trying to use the hidden OS feature. I am able to install the hidden OS (even restart and boot it and Windows works fine) but when I continue and try to install the decoy OS (on a partition which was wiped), I can boot the decoy OS but cannot boot the hidden OS anymore - when I enter the password for the hidden OS I get:
drive 0x80(LBA) C/H/S=[numbers], Sector Count/Size=[numbers]
Partition num: 0, active, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x07
Partition num 1, Filesystem type unknown type 0x06

Options if your HDD is larger than 1TB:
* Move your boot files to a smaller [...]
[THE WHOLE HELP TEXT IS PROBABLY NOT APPLICABLE BECAUSE MY PARTITION IS NOT LARGER THAN 1TB]
  1. How do I solve the problem?
  2. Is there a solution that doesn't require repeating the whole process of creating a hidden OS (it takes a few hours)?
  3. I will try using Truecrypt 7.1a tomorrow if nothing helps, do you think this issue will persist?
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