Open source disk encryption software with strong security for Windows

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VeraCrypt

  -  31.86 MB  -  Open Source
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Security Status

  • Latest Version

    VeraCrypt 1.26 Update 18 LATEST

  • Review by

    Michael Reynolds

  • Operating System

    Windows 8 / Windows 10

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  • Author / Product

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  • Filename

    VeraCrypt Setup 1.26.18.exe

  • MD5 Checksum

    0076fc819ffc8137923e5a33d74a5d2b

VeraCrypt is a free disk encryption software for Windows PC. VeraCrypt picks up from where TrueCrypt left and it adds enhanced security to the algorithms used for system and partitions encryption making it immune to new developments in brute-force attacks.

VeraCrypt also solves many vulnerabilities and security issues found in TrueCrypt. It can load TrueCrypt volume and it offers the possibility to convert TC containers and non-system partitions to the app format.

It adds enhanced security to the algorithms used for system and partitions encryption making it immune to new developments in brute-force attacks. It also solves many vulnerabilities and security issues found in TrueCrypt.

This enhanced security adds some delay ONLY to the opening of encrypted partitions without any performance impact on the application use phase. This is acceptable to the legitimate owner but it makes it much harder for an attacker to gain access to the encrypted data. The app can mount TrueCrypt volumes. It also can convert them to Vera Crypt format.

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 a 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: Hidden volume (steganography) and hidden operating system.
Also Available: Download VeraCrypt for Mac

Download VeraCrypt Latest Version

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What's new in this version:

- Added support for SHA-256 x86 intrinsic to enhance the performance of PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256
- Added support for AES hardware on ARM64 platforms (e.g. Windows ARM64, macOS on Apple Silicon Mx)
- Updated translations
- Dropped support for Windows 32-bit
- Set Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809) as the minimum supported version
- Reduce driver deadlock occurences under low-memory scenarios caused by re-entrant IRP completions
- Fixed failed EFI detection on some PCs where the BootOrder variable is not defined
- Fixed "Access Denied" error when updating VeraCrypt using EXE setup following a Windows upgrade
- Fixed various issues affecting the EFI system encryption configuration editor
- Fixed regression in Traveler Disk creation
- Replaced the deprecated CryptGenRandom with BCryptGenRandom for generating secure random bytes
- Use modern API to gather system entropy for random generation instead of obsolete ones
- Update LZMA SDK to version 24.09
- Update libzip to version 1.11.2

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