I’d been using an old version for a while and decided to update, but a quick look on Google shows multiple domain sites now. Is the real one still the French site or is there a new site? The .io one seems to appear the most in results.

I thought about instead of making 1 big 5-10gb container, to rather make 1gb containers so it's easier to cloud them back and forth, one for medical reports, one for bills, you name it. And for easy use purpose, just give them all the same password. Is this safe?

Has the VeraCrypt project talked about whether or not they will implement quantum resistant cryptography? With Harvest Now, Decrypt Later becoming a strategy it seems like it would be a good idea. But perhaps its not worth the effort or it would be too difficult to implement yet.

On the other hand do you believe this is even necessary?

But do NOT need admin access. In macOS, without macFUSE? Is that even possible? Windows' portable is nice without admin access.

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

Is it safe to enter my administrator password in the rather than in the macOS authentication dialog?

Apple M2 Pro / MacOS 26.5.1 / VeraCrypt_FUSE-T_1.26.29

I don’t even know where to start. I know my password. The external hard drive is drive d on my computer but I don’t even see a drive d on my veracrypt app.

Once I find it, how do I remove the encryption so I can use it as a normal hard drive?

Also, I do have the option to format the drive when I click it from explorer. Don’t know if that is another way to remove the encryption.

I recently have been trying to find a good way to access my VeraCrypt volumes on my android. I like to keep a backup of my IDs on a USB stick encrypted in a VeraCrypt volume. I'd rather not keep them stored on my phone in case I lose my phone (yes, I'm that paranoid), but I also don't want to keep them unencrypted on the USB key.

I've heard about EDS, but looking at the reviews there seems to be a lot of people that hate it (and isn't being updated any more?)

In my search I found CryptoContainer ( ) but it only has a handful of downloads and no reviews. Has anyone else played with this, or have other main stream options that don't seem to excessive with features? I don't need any cloud features, and just want to access the VeraCrypt volume, nothing fancy. Don't even need to create a volume, but I'd like to keep using something that's VeraCrypt compatible as I use it on multiple other devices and have come to like it.

Hi everyone, I desperately need your expert advice. My data is extremely important, but I have a very limited budget for professional data recovery labs (I live in Indonesia, so sending it to top-tier international labs isn't an option for me right now).

Here is the exact chronology of my issue:

I have a 2TB SSD (Drive D:).

I was in the middle of decrypting BitLocker on this drive.

When the decryption hit exactly 46.6%, my laptop accidentally went into Sleep mode.

When I woke it up, the decryption process was completely frozen.

Now, the drive shows up as RAW in CMD and Disk Management.

If I try to click or access any file/folder, Windows throws this error: "A device which does not exist was specified."

I checked Event Viewer (BitLocker-API) and Resource Monitor: There are 0 events and 0 disk activity. The process is completely dead.

The Good News:

I DO have the original 48-digit Recovery Key.

The drive is not physically damaged (no drops, no electrical surges).

My Plan:

I know I shouldn't work directly on the failing drive. I am planning to buy a blank 2TB External HDD to create a bit-by-bit clone/image first.

My Questions for the Experts:

What is the safest tool to clone/image an SSD with an interrupted BitLocker state like this? (Will HDDSuperClone or ddrescue work if Windows keeps disconnecting it with the "device does not exist" error?)

Once cloned, which data recovery software is the absolute best at parsing a partially decrypted BitLocker RAW image using my 48-digit key? (UFS Explorer, DMDE, R-Studio, etc.?)

Thank you so much for your time and help!

How are we supposed to update VeraCrypt? I'm using version (1.26.18). I go to the website that's listed in About but the download never begins. GitHub only has instructions on how to build it. I'm not Bob the Builder. All I want is an exe file to install

I have my disk fully encrypted and each time I boot and enter my password, until I stop typing there is a loud beeping noise & then a sort of clicking until it loads and puts me into Windows. Is there a way to get rid of this? Nothing else is affected, but it is a bit irritating to hear every time.

Another member opened my eyes that family photos should be accessible if something happens to me. I mainly didn’t want strangers to have access. Is there a way to remove the encryption so if something happens to me, the HDD is accessible to anyone?

AES is the default and has hardware acceleration on most modern CPUs. But VeraCrypt also offers algorithms like Serpent, Twofish, and cascades (AES-Twofish-Serpent).

Is any of them actually stronger than AES in a practical sense, or is there no real-world security benefit?

I’m curious because I don’t want to lose my family memories. I am tempted to buy a new HDD that supports password functions to avoid losing my data.

I saw a video that says to backup or copy something to a computer. I don’t believe I saw that prompt.

hello, idk what is happening, i have 2 usb encrypted with hidden by veracrypt, one (call it b) has the key to decrypt the hidden of the other (call it a).

when i go to tailsOS it inmediatly fails and tell me that the password to decrypt hidden b is incorrect, then i go to windows again (where i did all of this proccess from 0, encrypted both) and all of a sudden it works perfectly and let me mount it.

does anyone know what can happening here?

in tails i can decrypt the outer it is aes and sha256, but in the hidden i put aes(twofish(serpent)) and argon2 for any possible bf attack on my usb, idk it this is the problem or what, should i try via cmd installing and decrypting that with veracrypt cli?

thx all

Hey ,

I built an Android app called OTG Master that lets you mount VeraCrypt-encrypted USB drives directly on your phone or tablet over USB OTG — no root, no PC, no internet connection ever required.

A bit of background: this started as a personal tool. I carry encrypted drives for work and got tired of needing a laptop just to access them on the go. I wrote OTG Master for myself, used it quietly for a while, and eventually thought — if it's useful to me, it's probably useful to others here too. So I cleaned it up, added proper features, and decided to ship it.

What it does

- Unlocks and mounts VeraCrypt volumes directly from a USB drive plugged into your Android device (USB OTG)

- Supports FAT32 and exFAT filesystems inside the VeraCrypt container, with full read/write

- Supports AES, Twofish, Serpent ciphers and SHA-512, Whirlpool, SHA-256 hash algorithms

- Supports PIM and keyfiles

- Auto Mount: remembers known drives and prompts you with biometric authentication on reconnect — no need to re-enter your password every time

- USB hub support: plug in multiple encrypted drives at once and get a single biometric prompt for all of them

- Detects whole-device volumes as well as partition-based containers

Privacy and security

- Zero internet access — the app has no network permission whatsoever. It cannot phone home, send telemetry, or leak anything. You can verify this yourself in the source code or by checking the app's permissions on your device.

- Open source — full source on

- Free, no ads, no trackers, no subscriptions — I built this for myself first; monetisation was never the goal.

- Credentials are stored in Android's encrypted keystore, never on disk in plaintext.

How to join the beta

Join the Google Group and then opt in via the Play Store:

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Please don't use drives containing data you can't afford to lose during initial testing. The core crypto is well-tested but filesystem write paths on unusual configurations may surface bugs I haven't hit yet. Test with a dedicated drive first. Once you're comfortable with the behaviour, your call.

Any bugs, crashes, or unexpected behaviour — please on GitHub or drop a comment here. Both are watched.

Hi, after successfully mounting a drive encrypted with AES+Argon, veracrypt's gui freezes, the drive is successfully mounted, but I can't use the veracrypt gui, only way to unmount is through the system tray with a right click on the Veracrypt icon.

Is anyone else also encountering this issue ?

Thanks in advance!

Edit : this doesn't happen with the same drive, AES + SHA512-PBKDF2

Situation: Entire USB drive (SanDisk, ~460GB/494GB, bought via the official SanDisk Amazon storefront) is fully encrypted using VeraCrypt's whole-device encryption (not just a single partition). Drive started acting up: needed to enter the password multiple times to unlock, and once got past the password but the mounted volume was inaccessible with no error message — fixed itself after a dismount/remount. Eventually VeraCrypt flagged a damaged volume header.

What was done:

1. Used VeraCrypt's Tools > Restore Volume Header — this fixed the password/decryption issue (password now reliably accepted), but the mounted volume still shows as 0 bytes Windows (unformatted/unreadable filesystem)

2. Since the drive can't be safely "repaired" while RAW (chkdsk etc. don't work, and the data is too important to risk on the original), made a full sector-level image before attempting any further fixes:

   • First tried Testdisk, kept getting stuck in the 1 digit percentage range

   • Then AOMEI Backupper → hit a recurring driver error (Code 4140).

   • Switched to HDD Raw Copy Tool (lower-level, no driver dependency) → successfully imaged the entire drive with zero read errors, ruling out a catastrophic physical failure or counterfeit/fake-capacity drive.

3. Plan from here: convert the resulting .imgcv2 file into a plain .img, mount that .img in VeraCrypt (as a file, not a device), then run TestDisk against the decrypted drive letter to try to repair the inner NTFS boot sector — falling back to PhotoRec (raw file-carving) if that doesn't work.

4. Hit a detour: the destination drive used for the .img conversion (a separate 1TB external HDD, unrelated to the original sensitive drive) itself became unreadable mid-process and needed to be "Initialized" in Windows — its partition table is now gone too, ironically the same category of problem as the main issue. Not urgent — the original safety image (.imgcv2) is untouched and safe elsewhere, so nothing critical was lost, just need to redo a step.

5. Ran PhotoRec once already, but the results (only ~15 files found, all obscure/incorrect formats, zero real video/photo matches) strongly suggest it was actually scanning still-encrypted data rather than truly decrypted content — needs to be re-run properly once the .img mounts correctly.

Current status: Original drive untouched and not being touched further. A verified, complete raw image of it (.imgcv2) sits safely on the PC's main drive. Next steps: fix/recover the 1TB HDD (or pick a new destination), finish the .img conversion, mount it, and run filesystem recovery tools against the decrypted result.

This is a summary of a Problem I'm having with VeraCrypt at the Moment. I tried to fix it with claude and eventually lost track of what we did (therefore the Summary very obviously written by the AI) but failed after lots of tries. I hoped that maybe PEOPLE could help me.
Thanks

I've been using Cryptomator a lot, and one thing I do not like about it is that it doesn't matter how much parity you have for a file, if the encrypted .c9r file gets even a single block of data corrupted, then the decrypted file is entirely useless with no way to recover it.

if I encrypt a non-system partition with VeraCrypt, will it have the same weakness as Cryptomator to data corruption?

I am not necessarily worried about permanently losing data as I have multiple backups of all my important data. I am wondering if the parity files I'm creating are entirely useless if stored on a VeraCrypt drive.

By leveraging WebCrypto API and FileSystem API for browser-based encryption, we can create a secure way to encrypt and store files directly on your device from your browser.

*** The project is experimental and far from finished. It's presented for testing, feedback and demo purposes only (USE RESPONSIBLY!). ***

This project isnt finished enough to compare to veracrypt. This is intended to demonstrate client-side managed secure cryptography. Allowing users to get started without setup.

i have a  for testing. it isnt ready to replace any existing app or service, but its a work-in-progress and it would be great to get your feedback on it.

the implementation is based on the functionality described in here.

I have an old computer with a big harddrive. Thinking of using it as an extra storage, but I also want to put the content in veracrypt containers. I have tried several older versions of veracrypt (1.24 and 1.25 of different versions), but they are all telling me that the OS is not supported. Are there any version I could download of veracrypt that will work on an old computer with windows vista?

Accidentally deleted a veracrypt file that was approximately 75 to 200 GB. Trying to recover this file and not sure what the file type is or the best software to recover the data is.

Currently, trying everything I can personally think of which is not much.

I have an external HDD with media in a hidden VeraCrypt volume. I switch between a Windows 10 desktop and Linux Mint laptop.

Goal: Run all work on this drive inside a single portable Linux VM that works seamlessly on both machines.

Proposed setup: Mount the hidden volume on the host, then store the entire VM (VirtualBox .vdi + config) inside it.

Run VirtualBox on both hosts and open the VM from the external drive.

Is this practical? What issues should I expect?

Questions:
• Performance on USB HDD (inside VeraCrypt)?
• Compatibility moving the VM between Windows and Linux?
• Security best practices or better alternatives (different VM software, etc.)?

Any experiences or guides appreciated!

To preface, I don't intend for this to be a question/discussion about security so much as clarification of the underlying mechanics.

On Linux, it seems trash utilities create a trash directory per mountpoint, so I end up with a .Trash-1000 directory in my volumes. Personally, this seems sensible and I have no issue with it, but I am curious how this works with the rest of my system.

When I open mount a volume, it seems to be mounted as an ext4 filesystem (which I guess I chose), but my root partition is BTRFS, so what I'd like to understand is how moving files to the volume's trash directory, subsequently permanently deleting them, and SSD TRIM all interact.

It seems to me that this is how it should work on my system, in one instance:

1. I "delete" an item (move it to .Trash-1000 on the loop device where the unsealed volume is mounted)

2. I re-seal unmount the volume and unmount it

3. Presumably, the modified (encrypted) contents of the volume are written to disk

4. Because my volume is on a BTRFS filesystem, copy-on-write means the volume is written to an entirely new location

In the prior case, the old volume isn't moved to the system trash directory, but is instead dereferenced from the current subvolume's tree. If no subvolumes point to it, TRIM should reclaim that space as free space, correct?

Even in an example where I permanently delete trashed files (ex. Step 1, then 1A is cleaning out the trash directory), BTRFS COW means that TRIM should be able to reclaim the freed space regardless, correct?

This also means I shouldn't need to run fstrim on a mounted volume, correct?

I have bitlocker and i want to switch to veracrypt how can i switch to veracrypt?

What's annyoning is it's C: my installation of Windows, and I've got two drives one contains the file, but I am not able to open the stinking thing.

Never using it again, when windows builds are now just Ai builds, with hidden under the bonnet crap security is getting so tight we don't know what we're even dealing with.

I made a GPU ,NPU graph reader as a broswer extension, and let's just say all the Ai models got very excited everytime I mentioned something so shit really but nessecary I guess. I only wanted to learn Python, etc..

I watched Westworld after thinking about it, and it appeared on TV, this is happening a lot more now, we thought it was bad with Alexa etc, but I think somethings reading into my mind..

Any help I can offer an extension, which I doubt the calibre off you guys will get excited about, s** maybe?

Thanks for reading...

What's annyoning is it's C: my installation of Windows, and I've got two drives one contains the file, but I am not able to open the stinking thing.

Never using it again, when windows builds are now just Ai builds, with hidden under the bonnet crap security is getting so tight we don't know what we're even dealing with.

I made a GPU ,NPU graph reader as a broswer extension, and let's just say all the Ai models got very excited everytime I mentioned something so shit really but nessecary I guess. I only wanted to learn Python, etc..

I watched Westworld after thinking about it, and it appeared on TV, this is happening a lot more now, we thought it was bad with Alexa etc, but I think somethings reading into my mind..

Any help I can offer an extension, which I doubt the calibre off you guys will get excited about, s** maybe?

Thanks for reading...

I enter my password correctly but then it prompts me once more to enter it, no matter how many times I get it right it still prompts me? any fixes?

I know VeraCrypt does not support shrinking encrypted partitions, but I recently discovered that it can decrypt a partition in-place. Can anyone tell me if they have successfully used Is the workflow in the title? I'm on Windows 11 and the filesystem for the partition is NTFS.

I have been planing to encrypt a partition of my hard drive (not the system drive it is the second hard drive in my laptop) containing my personal photos however after going through this sub and seeing how frequently people run into problems I am second guessing my decision.

My main concern would be that if in the future I buy a new laptop and remove the hard drive from my old laptop and connect it to the new laptop as an external hard drive will I be able to access my data easily? By easily I mean just by installing veracrypt in the new pc and entering my password to access my data.

Can anyone also suggest any forums where I can read extensively about veracrypt in order to better understand how it works because so far I have only just watched some youtube videos and read an article from Arcane Code.

For the past few months I've needed to snooze my VPN connection in order to mount my VC volume. Anyone know why?

OS: Linux Mint

Hi all Veracryptors!

Need your help... I am presently using a 14Tb USB external drive as an off-site medium that I bring home once a month to update (using Casper) some of the five clones of my data drives. The process runs fast and smooth (most of the time) but I recently convinced myself that I should encrypt these off-site backups.

So I tried to encrypt one of the volumes (5.6Tb) using VC... which gleefully announced 23 h to complete the encryption... I don't know how long the decrypt would take in a month for the next clone update, but I would obviously have to re-encrypt it once done, and do the same with the other clones before off-siting the whole shebang again. Not practical.

Is-there a better way, using VC or not, to achieve what I am trying to do?

I have a NAS that I keep backed up twice on two identical hard drives, one stays at home, one stays at the office. Both entirely encrypted via VeraCrypt.

On the first backup I made, I accidentally chose a bad selection of folders and ended up completely filling the drive. Got a disk full warning, backup halted. I more carefully chose a different selection of folders to back up then ran that backup, which removed the unselected folders from the backup and then continued and it then all fit. I then performed the same more-carefully-selected backup on the second disk and it was fine from the start as expected.

However, now, when comparing the two disks, the first one I accidentally filled at first still says it has no free space. Using comparison tools, I can see both hard drives have the same files in the same places. My backup tools in simulation mode tell me the drives are identical. I can run checksums on any random file and see they're identical between both drives. But if I look at an individual folder and calculate the folder size, the one on the drive I accidentally filled first will report a much bigger folder size even though it contains the same files which individually are identical.

Is this just what happens with encrypted partitions? Once they increase in size, do they not decrease when files are deleted? Or is there an actual problem here and I should assume this particular backup is not safe or in same way corrupted? If it is safe to use this backup, is there anything I can do to correct the reported usage?

Hello, I used veracrypt to encrypt the data present in D drive, and I installed the veracrypt in C drive, now the motherboard is dead. I only have the encrypted file in D drive present. I tried installing the veracrypt software on my new system and tried to decrypt files, by using the same password but was not successful.

I still have the old C drive with me. Is it possible to recover the data somehow?

Update Edit: There was a password mismatch, I am able to decrypt the data and get my files back. Thanks.

Is there a better SSD than the 990 for heavy sustained writes?

I have no idea how I haven't experienced any sort of catastrophic data loss. I can't count how many BSOD I've gotten nor can I remember how many times I've unplugged the thing out of frustration mid write because of the constant freezing. And with a 48+ character pass I have no idea how I entered correctly every time at boot. Not touching this again until I get better hardware. (Currently on: Ryzen 5 5500 / 64GB RAM / A320M)

In theory, options are good. But really, do you know of anyone who is actively using Serpent/ThreeFish/Etc?

Edit: This is with regards to VeraCrypt.

Due to changes in Kleopatra and more, the issue and solution discussed in the thread below from 5 years ago does not seem to apply to my issue. I'm also still not clear on the whole PGP/key/signature world, rarely use command prompts, but have partitioned a disk (once)...over six years ago. So, please explain it like I'm 5.

My steps:

1. Right click the VeraCrypt Portable OpenPGP signature file. NOTE: Not sure if it matters, but I downloaded this file and VeraCrypt Portable to a USB drive (which is not the drive I'm preparing to encrypt).

2. I get the menu on the left and after selection, menu on the right. In all advice I've located, no one ever mentions that there are three different options. So, which one is correct?

3. I tried verify and then decrypt and verify. Both options returned message below:

4. What's the resolution?

I get it that VC doesn't use tpm chip but I'm wondering about the other setup of leveraging a TPM (dTPM version) with a good pin + bitlocker, what your thoughts are on such a setup compared to VC only?

I have a very large external hdd (5 TB). Intent is to use it as general purpose storage/backup. Honestly 5 TB is very much overkill, but I've got it, so I'm gonna use it. Information stored will include a mix of things that have no reason to be worried about, as well as documents with PII that need to be kept secure.

I figured I would just keep things simple and encrypt the whole drive rather than creating an encrypted volume within it. Not gonna lie the ~36 hour encryption time caught me off guard. But once it was running, I figured I'd let it run. Would check on it from time to time, and everything seemed to be running fine. But when I finally came back expecting it to be done, there was an error message about there being insufficient space. Tried to mount it just to check, no luck.

First question in how can there be insufficient space when it was just supposed to encrypt the whole drive? Second question (likely related to the first) is how can I prevent this from happening again?

Using Linux distro based in Ubuntu if it matters.

Is it possible? Compatible? Wanna use them both for as much security as possible. And yeah, I'm okay with typing two passwords

I am using Fedora 44 and I installed Veracrypt 1.26.24 but sometimes veracrypt reverts back to the 1.26.7 version from Oct 2023.

Why does this happen and should I be concerned with using an older version?