VeraCrypt
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“VeraCrypt has a cool function which is a reserved space for a decoy OS.”
“happy it got restored and there remains an alternative to butlocker”
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“it was resolved within a few days”
“Veracrypt was independently audited, even by German BSA [1] and no serious problems were found.”
“But I still like it for containers”
Caveats and dissent
“Not physically possible[1] to be deniable and a bad[2] idea.”
“Due to low level SSD architecture[1] and other reasons it is detectable:”
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“you must not use VeraCrypt to encrypt any part of”
“This is always been the dumbest thing about "hidden volumes"”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search 6 mentions
- GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices 4 mentions
- Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops 3 mentions
- Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory 2 mentions
- Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit 2 mentions
- Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates 2 mentions
Data: veracrypt.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
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“VeraCrypt's license still includes him”
“I since moved to TrueCrypt and now onto Vercrypt”
“it's not possible according to Veracrypt”
“Not physically possible[1] to be deniable and a bad[2] idea.”
“Due to low level SSD architecture[1] and other reasons it is detectable:”
“you must not use VeraCrypt to encrypt any part of”
“Here's some info from veracrypt on the SSD level.”
It's not possible afaict on phones because they use flash memory. https://veracrypt.io/en/Wear-Leveling.html https://veracrypt.io/en/Trim%20Operation.html
That's on HDDs, phones don't use HDDs. We already did this [1]? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Cider9986#49058421 https://veracrypt.io/en/Trim%20Operation.html https://veracrypt.io/en/Wear-Leveling.html
“This is always been the dumbest thing about "hidden volumes"”
“VeraCrypt has a cool function which is a reserved space for a decoy OS.”
“Similar to how I use Veracrypt, but I leave my PC running”
“Not possible to have a robust implementation with the current tech unfortunately.”
“I mean, so does everyone.”
“happy it got restored and there remains an alternative to butlocker”
“it was resolved within a few days”
“Unlike VeraCrypt and Shufflecake, tirdFS containers do not contain headers”
“Veracrypt was independently audited, even by German BSA [1] and no serious problems were found.”
“too many weird flags around the whole project”
“It has been resolved.”
“But I still like it for containers”
Windscribe is now the third one to be terminated by Microsoft as well... https://nitter.net/windscribecom/status/2041929519628443943
“Later I did the same thing with a VeraCrypt volume.”
“VeraCrypt has been tried and tested but it appears to perform poorly on modern NVME devices”
“it's not TRIM but how VeraCrypt handles I/O operations”
https://linuxmint.com/ https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop Every bad day for microsoft is anothe glorious day for linux.
“Veracrypt”
“using Veracrypt shouldn't make much of a difference”
“the issue is actually related to how VeraCrypt handles IRPs”