James Posted May 25, 2016 Report Share Posted May 25, 2016 VeraCrypt 1.17 now supports Unicode passwords. Optimisation of key derivation functions has cut mount/boot times in half. VeraCrypt solves many vulnerabilities and security issues found in TrueCrypt. It can can load TrueCrypt volumes, and convert TrueCrypt containers and non-system partitions to the VeraCrypt format. VeraCrypt carries out many more iterations than TrueCrypt with negligible performance impact. System requirements are: Windows XP and newer. MacOSX 10.6 and newer. OSXFuse must be installed with MACFuse compatibility mode activated. Linux x86 (32-bit and 64-bit) versions with kernel 2.6 and newer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted October 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 VeraCrypt 1.18 was found to contain 8x critical, 3x medium, and 15x low severity vulnerabilities. VeraCrypt has removed the GOST 28147-89 symmetric block cipher due to implementation issues - users can still decrypt volumes using that cipher but not create new instances. VeraCrypt 1.19 is now available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted July 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2017 VeraCrypt 1.20 comes with 64-bit processor optimizations for all supported operating systems. The developers have improved the implementation for SHA-512 and SHA-256 which results in a 33% speed increase on 64-bit systems. Additionally, a 64-bit optimized assembly implementation of Twofish and Camelia is included in VeraCrypt 1.20 which makes Camelia 2.5 times faster if AES-NI is supported by the processor, or 30% faster if it is not. Other major changes for all operating systems include the use of Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) for improved security, and the integration of a local HTML user guide instead of a PDF document. (source: ghacks.net) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted February 5, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2018 VeraCrypt 1.21, released in July 2017, added support for FreeBSD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted September 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2019 VeraCrypt is now available from https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html VeraCrypt 1.22 was released in March 2018. It included Kuznyechik speedup, new cascades cipher algorithms, and TRIM support for SSD. VeraCrypt 1.23 was released in September 2018. It added a default SecureBoot for the Windows EFI system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted October 12, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2020 VeraCrypt uses the Kuznyechik algorithm with 10 rounds and a 256-bit key operating in XTS mode. The Latest Stable Release: 1.24-Update7 (Friday August 7, 2020) is available from https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Downloads.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted March 27, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2021 VeraCrypt 1.24-Update8 (November 28th 2020)has been released for MacOSX 10.9 and later. It fixes compatibility issues with macOS Big Sur, especially on Apple Silicon M1 with macFUSE 4.0.x. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted April 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2022 VeraCrypt 1.25.9 was released February 19th 2022. Downloads are available from https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Downloads.html for Windows, Mac, Linux (CentOs, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE), Raspberry Pi and FreeBSD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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