New Post: Portable version auto dismount on Windows Explorer closing
I had been using TrueCrypt portable on a USB flash drive and had 2 batch files to mount and dismount volumes. The volumes would show up as normal drive letters in Windows Explorer. If I closed all...
View ArticleNew Post: Is there a way to speed up mounting of external HDD on a Windows XP...
testoslav wrote: Long boot time leads people to sleep their machines / leave them running instead turning them off... Yeah, good point. Say, if I leave my machine running but locked up with a Windows...
View ArticleNew Post: BUG: long Unicode passwords are broken!
When trying to make a new volume with a long Unicode password (45+ characters), Veracrypt treats the password as invalid, or not matching. Try this please: 1) Press the button to create a new encrypted...
View ArticleNew Post: DiskCryptor and Veracrypt on same PC
Hello, I know RevolutionOS is much better than Windows but i want to encrypt my HDDs with hardware but i dont have money :) I love security, encryption and privacy. Now, that time i will decrypt with...
View ArticleNew Post: Portable version auto dismount on Windows Explorer closing
Hi, First of all, A: or B: are not dismounted when you close all Explorer instances, they become just invisible. You can still access them by typing A:\ or B:\ in Explorer address bar or by right...
View ArticleNew Post: BUG: long Unicode passwords are broken!
This is not a bug but a simple case of a password whose bytes encoding exceeds the 64-bytes limit imposed on the input of the key derivation function. VeraCrypt added support for Unicode password as a...
View ArticleNew Post: 1.18 Beta Release - Feedback or Issues
April 28, 2016 version 1.18 BETA 5 for Windows has been released. Click on the link below to see all the changes. https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/technical/thread/9e760c29/
View ArticleNew Post: BUG: long Unicode passwords are broken!
Thanks for the quick response! But why not just run the password input through SHA-512, then pass the 64-byte digest into the key derivation function? :)
View ArticleNew Post: DiskCryptor and Veracrypt on same PC
idrassi wrote: Alex512 meant that you can use VeraCrypt on the same machine to encrypt disks/partitions while you can leave DiskCryptor for Windows encryption and pre-boot authentication. I agree that...
View ArticleNew Post: DiskCryptor and Veracrypt on same PC
Alex512 wrote:idrassi wrote: Alex512 meant that you can use VeraCrypt on the same machine to encrypt disks/partitions while you can leave DiskCryptor for Windows encryption and pre-boot authentication....
View ArticleCreated Unassigned: Security Issue - PSExec [443]
I discovered that when I mount an encrypted volume using a drive letter on my machine, anyone with admin access to my machine can use PSExec to start a remote command prompt and access the volume by...
View ArticleCommented Unassigned: Security Issue - PSExec [443]
I discovered that when I mount an encrypted volume using a drive letter on my machine, anyone with admin access to my machine can use PSExec to start a remote command prompt and access the volume by...
View ArticleClosed Unassigned: Security Issue - PSExec [443]
I discovered that when I mount an encrypted volume using a drive letter on my machine, anyone with admin access to my machine can use PSExec to start a remote command prompt and access the volume by...
View ArticleNew Post: BUG: long Unicode passwords are broken!
Actually hashing is already implemented in derive_key_XXX functions in Pkcs5.c (below an extract of derive_key_sha512) One idea that has been proposed already is to activate the hash at the top of the...
View ArticleCommented Unassigned: Focus stealing [441]
While mounting multiple favourite volumes, with the same password, keeping the password cached during that time, Veracrypt will steal focus from any application when mounting the next volume.This...
View ArticleNew Post: Specific Hard Drive Support
Sorry to return to this thread again and so late, but believe it or not I have only just received these drives, it's a long storey ! Monuir and avoiding encryption of RAW disk should be enough. I have...
View ArticleNew Post: Specific Hard Drive Support
Thanks for the update. I think there is a misunderstanding about the word "RAW". By RAW, I mean a non-partitioned disk where a drive is encrypted in whole without first create a partition on it. The...
View ArticleUpdated Wiki: Issues and Limitations
Known Issues & LimitationsKnown IssuesOn Windows, it may happen that two drive letters are assigned to a mounted volume instead of a single one. This is caused by an issue with Windows Mount...
View ArticleUpdated Wiki: Command Line Usage
Command Line UsageNote that this section applies to the Windows version of VeraCrypt. For information on command line usage applying to theLinux and Mac OS X versions, please run: veracrypt –h/help or...
View ArticleUpdated Wiki: Command Line Usage
Command Line UsageNote that this section applies to the Windows version of VeraCrypt. For information on command line usage applying to theLinux and Mac OS X versions, please run: veracrypt –h/help or...
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