VeraCrypt version 1.0f Beta
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This beta version of VeraCrypt 1.0f is for testing purposes only
Binaries for Windows, Linux and MacOSX are available at Sourceforge Nightly Builds section.
Changes between 1.0e and 1.0f-BETA (26 Octobre 2014):
- All OSs:
- Add support for SHA-256 for volume encryption.
- Make SHA-512 the default key derivation algorithm instead of RIPEMD160.
- Change the order of preference of derivation algorithms : SHA-512 -> Whirlpool -> SHA-256 -> RIPEMD160
- MacOSX:
- Implement support for hard drives with a large sector size (> 512).
- Link against new wxWidgets version 3.0.2
- Linux:
- 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
- Windows:
- 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.