Created Unassigned: Osx Sierra, admin/user password rejected [706]

April 20, 2017, 5:49 pm

I tried creating a new volume as in Truecrypt, it asked me for either a user or admin password. Tried both they were not accepted I aborted the program. Will not be using it for now.
My password is about 64 characters.
Something is up either with the password length limits or something else in interacting with the system.

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April 21, 2017, 1:23 pm

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Hi,

one thing I don't understand: Storing your files in cloud has one and only purpose: To access them from other computers over the internet. You do not upload your files just to save them, at least not to a public provider, that would be cranky, wouldn't it? You upload them to access them from anywhere and therefore you prevent your provider from reading them. That's the internet.

So that does mean that you need a way to decrypt your data on strange computers, e.g. in an internet cafe or in the office, and that you cannot and do not want to install any software on these computers. I've flown over the headlines of the first 15 pages of discussions - and this problem isn't even mentioned. Nor in the support docs of manufacturer, at least this is not mentioned there as the first and most important feature. What's going on? Why does one upload his data, if he cannot access them over the internet without primarily searching someone to install decryption software on that computer (whether in the office or wherever)? You don't upload your files just to download them to the same computer, don't you?

Thanks for your ideas, or even better, for a solution to use the cloud in a useful and safe manner.

Regards,
Stefano

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April 21, 2017, 3:43 pm

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That's encouraging to hear! Thanks for all your hard work. I love VeraCrypt and I'd hate to have to give it up for lost. I suppose I no longer have to search for other encryption software after all!

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April 21, 2017, 4:16 pm

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I had a computer system with an SSD and a spinning hard disk drive. The OS was installed to the SDD unencrypted and my personal files were installed on the HDD. The HDD was encrypted using Veracrypt as a device-hosted (non-system) volume, as opposed to a file-hosted volume.

Since then the the SSD has failed and I can longer boot the system. While I can live with the loss of the SDD, the HDD has important data which I really need to recover. I've connected it to another system via SATA. Windows can see the drive and I can assign it a drive letter. However, when I try to decrypt with Veracrypt, I get the following message:

Operation failed due to one or more of the following:

 - Incorrect password.
 - Incorrect Volume PIM number.
 - Incorrect PRF (hash).
 - Not a valid volume.

Source: MountVolume:7763

I'm pretty certain the password is correct. I've tried using the backup volume header via mount options, plus restoring the volume header via Tools > Restore Volume Header but neither option works. I don't have a rescue disk.

Any suggestions as what else I can try to do to recover the data?

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April 22, 2017, 2:03 am

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There may not be any sense to "cloud storage". Many might argue that they only benefit to cloud storage is if it is used as an "off-site" backup.
Most tend to forget that any information you store on these services belongs to the provider. (You put it there means they own it)

For me, Encrypting a USB3 external pocket drive & synced to my home PC is the best solution.
The time and bandwidth required for "cloud solutions" are too costly.

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April 22, 2017, 2:31 am

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absolutely agree with both statements above!

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April 22, 2017, 4:44 pm

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If you encrypt an entire data drive formatted with EXFat and secured with a veracrypt volume/ hidden partition. How large can the hidden partition be? Is there any disadvantages such as comprised security to making a veracrypt hidden volume use 80%-100% of the outer volume?

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April 23, 2017, 5:20 am

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FreeBSD 11 build and use compatibility

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April 24, 2017, 1:30 am

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Hi,

I installed Veracrypt version 1.19 on my windows 10 machine. I managed to create a 20G encrypted drive in a .hc file. However now I get intermittent blue screens. The guide gives this advice.

"If the problem persists, run VeraCrypt and select Help > 'Analyze a System Crash' shortly after the system crashes or restarts."

However if I go into Help there is no Analyze a System Crash option? If I uninstall VeraCrypt the blue screens stop.

Thanks

Emmet

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April 24, 2017, 5:09 am

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I've just performed a full partition non-system volume encryption (the partition occupies the whole drive, but it was only the partition that I encrypted). I am using 1.19, which I think is the latest version. I am also getting a message suggesting "Optimisation not available". I am curious as to whether this is an issue that remains for others or whether it was fixed for most people in release 1.18, and I have some kid of other problem.

Further information: Win 10 Creators Edition, NTFS 4K cluster format, partition fully encrypted.

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April 24, 2017, 9:44 am

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Hello Emmet,

Did you check the Windows Event Viewer for crash information as to what software driver caused the issue?

You can try this tool to view the dumps. However, I am not sure if this tool will work for Windows 10.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

MS has DaRT 10 that one of the components is a crash analyzer.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/mdop/dart-v10/diagnosing-system-failures-with-crash-analyzer-dart-10

In case there is an incompatibility with your AntiVirus software, try disable or deinstall the AV to see if BSOD have stopped.

PS: VeraCrypt 1.20 Beta 2 is stable if you wish try that option.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/veracrypt/files/VeraCrypt%20Nightly%20Builds/

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April 24, 2017, 11:56 am

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Thank you for a great product! I've donated as well I hope this project continues and that my donation will help with the cause.

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April 24, 2017, 1:51 pm

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I have the nearly same problem, but on a different situation.

I used TrueCrypt and configured it 5 years ago. I am not sure what I configured in detail, but I have the same drives configuration as the topic starter:

Windows 7:
C: SSD: System SSD PRE-Boot authetification
D: HDD: Normal Device was also encrypted.

I also only had one Password to enter in pre-boot Authentication. So I entered only one password in pre-boot to decrpyt and mount both (c: and d:). The d: HDD normal Device is also auto-monted on every boot.

Now I used TrueCrypt GUI to change the Password. I have never updated TrueCrypt, so I have the same TrueCrypt installed as 5 years ago.
I think it truecrypt password change has the same construct as veracrypt now has.
After Changing the password of the C: SDD System drive, I did a reboot. After reboot can enter my newly changed password correctly and my system is booting fine. Not problem for my booting system SSD. But now my D: HDD is missing. I have no d: drive anymore and also can't encrypt the HDD device with truecrypt. Any idea how?

When I select d: as device and try to mount, TC says that the password is wrong or did not find a TC volume. I am very sure about the password, because I entered it for 5 years. Now I can't mount d: hdd with old password and also not with new password. No PW works for d: now.

I think both volumes had the same Password last 5 yraes, because I only have entered one password on pre-boot auth. But when I try to mound the HDD device now, and enter my old password, I only get the error message. What should I do to get my missing D: drive back and readable and again?

And chance of getting more infos for you. How can I get more information an d: about finding some truecrypt volumes?

My situation is not 100% the same as topic starter, but I thing it's the same point. We can both boot our system drive c: and can't mount our old hdd data drive d:.

When somebody has a c: system device in pre-boot auth and also a auto-mounted encrypted d: device, what happened exactly when changing the password for the c: system drive in the GUI?

Best regards
Manni

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April 25, 2017, 12:47 am

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StefanoFereri wrote:

... for a solution to use the cloud in a useful and safe manner.

It has been discussed quite a few times. You can either put veracrypt container into cloud synced folder (big waste of bandwidth, cannot be mounted by more devices at the same time), or use something like EncFS, which works perfectly on linux, but is still not mature on windows. There are two projects for windows I'm aware: encfsmp and resurrected encfs4win, maybe one of them will work for you. Paid alternative is boxcryptor, if you don't mind it is proprietary. With encfs cloud providers cannot decrypt file names or content, but they can see file sizes. Personally I like mega.co.nz, 50GB free space, everything is encrypted before leaving device, does not care about the content and it works fine.

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April 25, 2017, 1:34 am

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Hi,

are there plans to make chacha20 a cipher choice? Is this even possible due to chacha is a streamcipher?

On machines without aes-ni it is much faster than aes.

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April 25, 2017, 11:00 am

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I'm not sure if UEFI + GPT is officially supported yet, but I'd just like to post that I've successfully used Veracrypt 1.19 to fully encrypt a Windows 10 GPT disk on UEFI. The only non-default option I had to perform was disable Safe Boot in my UEFI settings.

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