The project published Veracrypt 1.26.18, a fork developing encryption of disk sections following the discontinuation of TrueCrypt. Veracrypt replaces the Ripemd-160 algorithm in TrueCrypt with Sha-512 and SHA-256, increases hashing iterations, simplifies assembly for Linux and MacOS, and resolves identified problems in TrueCrypt source texts. Veracrypt, distributed under the Apache 2.0 license, retains TrueCrypt borrowings under the TrueCrypt License 3.0. Ready-made assemblies are available for Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and MacOS.
Changes in the new version include:
- X86 systems now use specialized CPU instructions to accelerate the PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 algorithm.
- ARM64 platforms introduce support for hardware acceleration of AES encryption.
- Logic for determining sessions created with the Sudo utility has been simplified.
- Assembly problems with the Wxwidgets library on Ubuntu have been resolved.
- A check for section existence before mounting has been added.
- On MacOS, screen capture is disabled by default.
- Support for 32-bit Windows systems has been discontinued, with Windows 10 Update 1809 declared as the minimum supported version.
- Vulnerabilities CVE-2024-54187 and CVE-2025-23021 have been eliminated, improving security protocols related to file execution and mounting sections into system directories respectively.
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