After the year of development of published Project release Veracrypt 1.25.4 , developing the fork of the encryption system of the TrueCRYPT disk partitions, which ceased to exist. Developed by the project VERACRYPT code distributed under the Apache 2.0 license, and the borrowing from TrueCrypt continues to be supplied under the TrueCHRYPT License 3.0 license. Ready build are formed for Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and MacOS.
Veracrypt is notable for replacing the RIPEMD-160 algorithm used in the TRUCRYPT on SHA-512 and SHA-256, an increase in the number of hashing iterations, simplifying the assembly process for Linux and MacOS, eliminating Problems identified in the process of auditing source text TrueCrypt. At the same time, VERACRYPT provides compatibility mode with TrueCrypt sections and contains tools for converting TrueCrypt partitions to VERACRYPT format.
In the new version, about 40 changes are proposed, including:
- Added support for the OpenBSD platform.
- In the command line utility, the option “–size = Max” has been added to provide the encrypted container of the entire available free disk space. Similar setup Added to the configurator interface.
- Error outputs when specifying in the “–FileSystem” option in an unknown file system instead of ignoring the stage of creating an FS.
- in Linux is provided with the ability to connect text transfers in the user interface. The language for the interface is selected based on the Lang environment variable, and the translation files are stored in XML format.
- Linux provides compatibility with PAM_TMPDIR PAM module.
- in Ubuntu 18.04 and newer releases provided the VERACRYPT icon display in the notification area.
- FreeBSD is implemented by encryption system devices.
- Optimization of the productivity of the cryptographic hash function StreeBog (GOST 34.11-2018).
- Building for Windows Added support for the ARM64 architecture database (Microsoft Surface Pro X), but the encryption of system partitions is not yet supported for them. Supports support for Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. Added installer in MSI format. Fixed Windows-specific errors when working with memory. Protected variants of WCSCPY, WCSCAT and STRCPY functions are involved.