Hacker GitHub

← All repos

veracrypt/VeraCrypt

View on GitHub ↗ ★ 12,086 C

Disk encryption with strong security based on TrueCrypt

11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 3 stories, 8 comments · first 2017-07-21 · latest 2026-01-24

Mentions per year 11 mentions · busiest year 2023 (3)
20082026
AllStoriesComments NewestTopOldest
  1. …how VeraCrypt handles I/O operations. You can see some numbers real numbers in this Github issue: https://github.com/veracrypt/VeraCrypt/issues/136
    comment by debazel · 2026-01-24 · in Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
  2. …loss on high speed SSDs and the issue is actually related to how VeraCrypt handles IRPs: https://github.com/veracrypt/VeraCrypt/issues/136#issuecomme...
    comment by debazel · 2026-01-24 · in Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
  3. ▲ 4
    VeraCrypt: Disk encryption with strong security based on TrueCrypt
    story by arunc · 2024-10-31 · 1 comment
  4. …look at all of the source yourself [1]. [0] - https://ostif.org/the-veracrypt-audit-results/ [1] - https://github.com/veracrypt/VeraCrypt
    comment by I_Byte · 2023-10-02 · in VeraCrypt: Free open-source disk encryption for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
  5. There is still an open issue in VeraCrypt ( https://github.com/veracrypt/VeraCrypt/issues/136 ) because of which BitLocker is much faster on SSDs then VeraCrypt... But if you don't need those speads, VeraCrypt is still great...
    comment by pulse7 · 2023-10-02 · in VeraCrypt: Free open-source disk encryption for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
  6. …to Github. This website has the latest release in 2022. The Github project has much newer releases: https://github.com/veracrypt/VeraCrypt/releases . Today basically.
    comment by jillesvangurp · 2023-10-02 · in VeraCrypt: Free open-source disk encryption for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
  7. ▲ 17
    Attention VeraCrypt version 1.26.1 is not safe
    story by medo-bear · 2022-12-20 · 4 comments
  8. ▲ 2
    VeraCrypt: First native Apple M1 support
    story by kartikarti · 2021-08-15 · 0 comments
  9. …with much more information about this subject can be found here [3], to whom it may concern. [0] https://github.com/veracrypt/VeraCrypt/commit/321715202aed04... [1] https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.0/man3/OPENSSL_zalloc.ht... [2]…
    comment by Koffiepoeder · 2019-06-21 · in SSH gets protection against side-channel attacks
  10. Here the opinion of one of the Veracrypt authors on this topic: > https://github.com/veracrypt/VeraCrypt/issues/419 Highlight: "This leads me to think that maybe there is another interesting possibility: the designer of Streebog and…
    comment by wolfgke · 2019-03-24 · in On the S-Box of GOST Streebog and Kuznyechik
  11. Veracrypt - https://github.com/veracrypt/VeraCrypt
    comment by rebase · 2017-07-21 · in Ask HN: Now that TrueCrypt is long gone. What FOSS alternatives are there?