Versie 1.0f van VeraCrypt is uitgekomen. VeraCrypt is een zogenaamde fork van TrueCrypt, wat in mei vorig jaar onder nogal vage omstandigheden er mee op is gehouden. Met dit opensource-encryptieprogramma kunnen complete harde schijven of partities, en virtuele volumes, zoals een bestand dat als partitie wordt benaderd, worden versleuteld. VeraCrypt gebruikt de originele broncode van TrueCrypt, maar bevat wel diverse verbeteringen met betrekking tot de beveiliging. Volumes die met TrueCrypt zijn aangemaakt zijn kunnen vanaf deze versie wel geopend en geconverteerd worden. De Fransman Mounir Idrassi is al sinds de zomer van 2013 met dit project bezig. De changelog voor deze uitgave ziet er als volgt uit:
All OSs:OS X:
- Add support for mounting TrueCrypt volumes.
- Add support for converting TrueCrypt containers and non-system partitions.
- Add support for SHA-256 for volume encryption.
- Make SHA-512 the default key derivation algorithm and change the order of preference of derivation algorithms : SHA-512 -> Whirlpool -> SHA-256 -> RIPEMD160
- Deprecate RIPEMD160 for non-system encryption.
- Speedup mount operation by enabling choice of correct hash algorithm.
- Display a wait dialog during lengthy operations to avoid freezing the GUI.
- Implement creation of multiple keyfiles at once, with predefined or random size.
- Always display random gathering dialog before performing sensitive operations.
- Links in the application now points to the online resources on Codeplex
- First version of proper VeraCrypt User Guide
Linux:
- Implement support for hard drives with a large sector size (> 512).
- Link against new wxWidgets version 3.0.2
- Solve truncated text in some Wizard windows.
Windows:
- Add support of NTFS formatting of volumes.
- Correct issue on opening of the user guide PDF
- Better support for hard drives with a large sector size (> 512).
- Link against new wxWidgets version 3.0.2
- Security: fix vulnerability in bootloader detected by Open Crypto Audit and make it more robust.
- Add support for SHA-256 in system boot encryption.
- Various optimizations in bootloader.
- Complete fix of ShellExecute security issue.
- Kernel driver: check that the password length received from bootloader is less or equal to 64.
- Correct a random crash when clicking the link for more information on keyfiles
- Implement option to auto-dismount when user session is locked
- Add self-test vectors for SHA-256
- Modern look-and-feel by enabling visual styles.
- Few minor problems fixed.