When VeraCrypt encrypts or decrypts the data, it is using a perfectly random, high-entropy encryption key to perform symmetric cryptographic operations. This key is called a Media Encryption Key (MEK) or Data Encryption Key (DEK). The MEK is exactly the key one may be able to extract from the computer’s RAM dumps, hibernation and page files. VeraCrypt and the former TrueCrypt are two of the most challenging types of encryption to bypass with regard to their popularity as full disk encryption software. Unlike Bitlocker encryption, TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt may encrypt their containers and volumes with multiple encryption keys (cascade encryption) applying the encryption types one by one. VeraCrypt is a free disk encryption software brought to you by IDRIX (and that is based on TrueCrypt 7.1a. Latest Stable Release - 1.21 (Sunday July 9, 2017) Windows / MacOSX / Linux / FreeBSD / Raspbian / Source Downloads Online Documentation (click here for latest User Guide CHM). VeraCrypt is a free, open-source encryption application built by a team of two people: Mounir Idrassi, the main developer, and a volunteer developer. Although small in terms of scope — VeraCrypt is.
If you have any private information at all on your computer system, you should encrypt it. With a tool like VeraCrypt, you can easily encrypt partitions or create files that may be mounted as a drive in Windows.
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Getting started with VeraCrypt is easy and thanks to its wizard-type interfaces, creating encrypted volumes or partitions is easy.
The program offers a list of different encryption methods, including AES, Serpent, Twofish, Camellia and others. In the case of creating a volume on your existing hard drive, you may select the desired drive size, volume password and volume format to get started. Once completed, use the main interface of VeraCrypt to mount the encrypted file container volume as a drive in Windows.
If you're looking at encrypting an entire hard drive or existing partition, you can do that too by selecting a system partition in the wizard.
All in all, VeraCrypt is an excellent improvement on TrueCrypt and is easy to handle as well as an extremely secure way to save and encrypt your data; Just make sure you're using a secure password.
Features and highlights
- Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk
- Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive
- Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication)
- Encryption is automatic, real-time(on-the-fly) and transparent
- Parallelization and pipelining allow data to be read and written as fast as if the drive was not encrypted
- Encryption can be hardware-accelerated on modern processors
- Provides plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password
VeraCrypt 1.24 Update 7 on 32-bit and 64-bit PCs
This download is licensed as freeware for the Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system on a laptop or desktop PC from data encryption software without restrictions. VeraCrypt 1.24 Update 7 is available to all software users as a free download for Windows. As an open source project, you are free to view the source code and distribute this software application freely.
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