![]() ![]() The wizard steps you through creating a vault for your data, so follow along as prompted.įor this article, I created a file container. In VeraCrypt's Volume Creator Wizard window that appears, choose whether you want to create an encrypted file container or to encrypt an entire drive. ![]() Better yet, VeraCrypt can load old TrueCrypt volumes, so if you were a TrueCrypt user, it's easy to transfer them over to VeraCrypt. With VeraCrypt 1.12 and later versions, you can use custom iterations for increased encryption security. ![]() VeraCrypt is based on TrueCrypt 7.1a and features many improvements over the original (including significant algorithm changes for standard encrypted volumes and boot volumes). TrueCrypt eventually closed down, but a replacement project called VeraCrypt quickly sprang up to fill the void. It was a useful technique that essentially provided a virtual, portable, fully encrypted drive (except it was a file) where you could safely store your data. Provided you had the correct passphrase, TrueCrypt could decrypt the vault and provide read and write access on any computer running TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt allowed you to create an encrypted file "vault," where you could store sensitive information of any kind (text, audio, video, images, PDFs, and so on). Still, it was cross-platform, easy to use, and really, really useful. Its author was (and remains to this day) anonymous. Its source code was available, although there were no major claims that anyone had ever audited or contributed to it. Many years ago, there was encryption software called TrueCrypt. ![]()
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