Collaborate Disseminate
Suppose that I have a Veracrypt container on Windows 10. I unlock it, open and edit a Text document, open an image, watch a video. Then I close all files, unmount the container.
Then I run CCleaner to remove caches (including thumbnail) an… Continue reading Remove all traces of files used in Veracrypt container… is this enough?
I use Fedora Linux and was recently looking into doing Full Disk Encryption on data drives such as /home on some of my / my family’s PCs. I understand that LUKS security will be partially dependent on having strong passwords and not doing … Continue reading Is LUKS still an effective option for consumer FDE considering Elcomsoft can break it?
Secenario
Consider the case of a MacBook Pro with FileVault active. The computer is on and I’m properly logged on.
I frequently need to access sensitive data located in text files on an encrypted volume. The encrypted volume is created whe… Continue reading MacBook Pro is Powered On but Locked. Is my VeraCrypt data Readable if Laptop Stolen?
Suppose a Veracrypt container was mounted and dismounted later. Then CCleaner was run, Youtube was used to watch videos, websites are browsed, and so on for 3 hours. Then computer went to sleep (hibernate and pagefile disabled). What are t… Continue reading Veracrypt container dismounted… chances the master key still in RAM or that it can be decrypted by someone after some hours?
According to recent sudo issues, I want to remove its package from my machine and use root instead (for just related stuff – not all the time – like update and …). But I have an issue that launching Veracrypt via root is not a wise choic… Continue reading how to create a user specifically for opening veracrypt [migrated]
I had two copies of a Veracrypt encrypted drive, and from them, I made two additional copies of the drive, which was a few days ago. the two copies had the exact same SHA hashes of the original two copies when they were created, the data s… Continue reading Veracrypt issue – have I been hacked?
I am trying to use VeraCrypt on Tails.
I followed a guide to create VeraCrypt AppImage.
The created AppImage works for creating encrypted volumes, but doesn’t work to mount them.
Failed to obtain administrative privileges: sudo /tmp/.moun… Continue reading Is it safe to run VeraCrypt AppImage as root?
I recently got Windows 10, and I am not overly thrilled at Microsoft having a copy of my password on their servers. I will also be forced to make a hotmail account, instead of just using a local account. I am forced to use Windows because … Continue reading Can I use VeraCrypt with an SSD?
To get to 50% on a 1.8TB volume, VeraCrypt has taken about 30 minutes. If it takes another 30 minutes to finish, that’s 1h to create the volume. Is this normal? (if it in’t should start over after figuring out what went wrong). The process… Continue reading VeraCrypt taking a very long time (~1 hour) to create volume? [migrated]
Once mounted using VeraCrypt, I run sudo fatlabel /dev/mapper/tcrypt-**** foo.
$ sudo fatlabel /dev/mapper/tcrypt-**** foo
0x25: Dirty bit is set. Fs was not properly unmounted and some data may be corrupt.
Automatically removing dirty bi… Continue reading Why go I get "dirty bit is set" when renaming mounted VeraCrypt volume using fatlabel? [migrated]