Best Symmetric Encryption Suite
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Meet VeraCrypt, a fork of TrueCrypt. It is everything that TrueCrypt was and more. For some reason the TrueCrypt software was abandoned. People who loved the TrueCrypt software made a new version of the app and called it VeraCrypt. The interface is just like TrueCrypt's except that there are more features and bug fixes. Oh, and this is the important part: it's fully open-source and platform-agnositc (can be run on various operating software suites). You can mount files to be drives on your computer or you can mount whole drives which are encrypted to unencrypted drives on your computer. You can create two volume types: standard or hidden volume. There are fifteen modes of encryption from which you can secure your drives with. These modes are listed below:

AES
Serpent
Twofish
Camellia
Kuznyechik
AES(Twofish)
AES(Twofish(Serpent))
Camellia(Kuznyechik)
Camellia(Serpent)
Kuznyechik(AES)
Kuznyechik(Serpent(Camellia))
Kuznyechik(Twofish)
Serpent(AES)
Serpent(Twofish(AES))
Twofish(Serpent)

VeraCrypt also supports a wide range of HASHing, with the following listed hashes being available for you in this software:

SHA-512
Whirlpool
BLAKE2s-256
SHA-256
Streebog

The encryption scheme and the hash scheme can be benchmarked so that you can get an idea on which schemes are the fastest per your computer's central processing unit (CPU).

This is just a brief description of how amazing this software actually is. You need to check this out on your own as it is literally the best available private key encryption software application that has ever been made for this purpose. I look forward to hear your judgment of this software. Have fun and write me back about your perspective of this game changing software.

Cheers!
-warmfuzzy

P.S. One thing I haven't explored far enough is the hidden volume feature. With VeraCrypt you can have a standard encrypted file or full hard drive volume. Another option is to create a "hidden" volume in which you can secretly store an encrypted volume within an other encrypted volume. So you can have a secret stash of files within the encrypted volume's free space. Someone could look at an encrypted volume's files and have no idea that there are also a hidden portion that is invisible. You will see this in action when you check out this software on your own.
-warmfuzzy

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I've wanted to give TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt a try for several whiles, but am terrified I'll mess it up and cause data loss. :D
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I've wanted to give TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt a try for several whiles, but am terrified I'll mess it up and cause data loss. :D

I've been using it for years now for pretty sensitive data and I've never had any problems, including a few times I had a volume mounted and the power went out.

As for user error, it's pretty much a mount-volume-and-forget-it kind of affair, but I don't use it for whole drive encryption, just containers.

I'm actually impressed with how simple and reliable it is, even though I could just use LUKS. The benefit of Veracrypt is its volumes will mount on both Linux and Windows easily.

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Fissile Syntax wrote to halian <=-

As for user error, it's pretty much a mount-volume-and-forget-it kind
of affair, but I don't use it for whole drive encryption, just
containers.

Whole drive encryption is nice, but you need to make sure you don't
format the drive when you plug it into a Windows system - it shows up
as unformatted and suggests that you format it - which kills the
encrypted container.

I'm actually impressed with how simple and reliable it is, even though
I could just use LUKS. The benefit of Veracrypt is its volumes will
mount on both Linux and Windows easily.

We used to use VeraCrypt on external drives to move large chunks of data to-from the data center - didn't want the risk of losing an unencrypted
drive and wanted to keep the auditors happy.





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