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If you have the drive fully encrypted, you can actually do it.

Just go into Windows Disk Management and remove the drive letter

Here's a helpful link if you need any assistance: https://winaero.com/blog/remove-drive-letter-windows-10/

assuming it's a128 char passwords with symbols, it would take a computer about 42 sextillion septuagintillion years to crack it

FYI the password tested is

acVKw4JxEeeuJqeHv6YFHScJHKnzYeJYkP95EX_vjEe?R-aZ2xqbTE?tFy+%J8%aZyNLk=B&Bn6QH%5C26H7Vw7XGxmz^&YeTQYhALrGksEfLm%STAAtE3u59r

and the calculation site is this: https://howsecureismypassword.net/

Codeplex is just a repo to download software from. Veracrypt will still be developed and can be downloaded from other sources such as:

 

Sourceforge https://sourceforge.net/projects/veracrypt/

 

Or Github https://github.com/veracrypt/VeraCrypt

Moving files inside the container/partition won't affect the Header or its backup. In fact, even if you change the password to the encrypted space, that Header Backup will still be viable, using the old password. That's what the VC's Documentation reads.

For Android, I think "EDS" is the closest you can get to opening encrypted containers on mobile, dunno which of VC's containers it supports, but make sure the password is long and the PIM is low, if you intent to open containers on low-end mobile. Or do some tests to see what are the container unlocking times.

The Corsair Voyager GTX is a pretty cost-effective option if you only need 128-256GB of storage. I’ve had a 256GB one since last Christmas and have written almost a TB to it without any slow down. It features SMART and TRIM so it should last a very long while and writes large zip files at around 80MB/s once the buffer cache fills up. If you need a higher capacity I would suggest getting a good external HDD for around the same price.

I see, so you changed the case of your PC. I was struggling to understand what sort of case could go inside a PC...

I don't think this could be related to your problem. You could, however, take this disk out and try to connect it through an USB dock, just to be sure.

There sure is...

Boxcryptor: play.google.com/details?id=com.boxcryptor

It encrypts local and various cloud services. It's not exactly free, but it's the most advanced local/cloud file encryption software I've found for android.

Here is the technical overview: boxcryptor.com/technical-overview/

Once you set up your account, you have the ability to export your private key, which you can use with VERACRYPT on your PC/Server.

Hope this helps!

>1. He uses french domain for Veracrypt (veracrypt.fr). France is one of the 9 eyes countries which share information with the US and other tyrants. I wouldn't trust French government more than US government in any way.

Please just read this.

>2. When you click to download veracrypt, it doesn't come from the domain you're visiting, it's coming from: https:/launchpadlibrarian.net

Not every Programm can afford to host these files on their own Server (more bandwith = more cost) that's why you should also use the pgp key to verify that they didn't put a backdoor in and uploaded it for example

>HOW CAN WE TRUST HIM?

Build the source code yourself If you're worried about that

>Please point me to the people who AUDITS the code regularly as it gets updated every few months.

• An audit is not a 100% proof that a software is safe and secure. Some flaws can be overlooked even by the best auditors.
• An audit is valid only for a “snapshot” of the code. If new code is added, new vulnerabilities can be introduced.

> were observed by firmware or bios virus then they could be recovered or maybe even remotely transmitted via a Internet connection

Definitely possible. In modern Intel motherboards and processors, there is the Intel Management Engine, an embedded unit in the CPU that has access to everything.

Currently there are no publicly known exploits to take control of the Intel ME unit, but it is theoretically possible to take over Intel ME and have full access to RAM and Internet and capture Veracrypt Keys that way.

Who knows? At this point you can assume Intelligence Agencies and governments have already cracked Intel ME's security features and are using it in targeted strikes.

please read here: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-securely-encrypt-your-files-in-the-cloud/ Why Dropbox? Good question. Dropbox can synchronize only the changed portions of large files, while Google Drive and SkyDrive can only synchronize entire files (as far as I can tell). This means that, if you have a 2GB TrueCrypt drive and change a small file in it, Dropbox will upload a small portion of the TrueCrypt file, while Google Drive and SkyDrive will re-upload the entire 2GB file. Some other cloud storage services may also offer delta uploads – be sure you choose one that does if you’re using a TrueCrypt volume.

so i think this really works with veracrypt too.. i tested it so far successfully - but i think i make a smaler container now.. 20 gb is to much.. let me know what you think

15 years is pretty old for a hard disk. Mine started failing at 10 years old.

I was immensely helped in the task of diagnosing them, then deciding to change them, by the program Hard Disk Sentinel.

https://www.hdsentinel.com/index.php

The program's developer has also written extensive articles on his site, to explain why SMART is a very crude way to judge hard disks health, and very often gives no warning before failure.

Hard Disk Sentinel builds on SMART, but goes way further. Ther different types of proprietary surface diagnostics it offers give a very precise picture of a disk health.

Not only they allowed me to observe the state of my disks, try and repair them, then finally decide to replace them, but they allowed me to judge poorly of the state of an allegedly brand-new replacement disk bought on Amazon -- and return it, for a full refund.

Hard Disk Sentinel has a Linux free version. I'm under Windows, and at first sight, it seems that the Linux version does not have the most advanced and useful features. However, you can always test your disk with the Windows version if you have access to that operating system.

For the speed impact, just test it yourself, I am sure you don't need step by step instruction but if you do let me know :)

0- in VeraCrypt, you can go to Tools>Benchmark and get result (screenshot it to share it here)

1- Then download https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskmark/

run it, and take a screenshot if you wanna share it here.

2- Encrypt your drive using VeraCrypt and run Crystaldiskmark again (share if you care)

3- is it too slow for you? Then go for windows bitlocker/driver encryption (if you are on windows ) and test it again to see the difference

4- share your result here to help others: Having said that, you probably just want an answer, but I forgot and I think to some level it is subjective and based on your needs, for me I prefer security over performance , but as far as I remember, I didn't mind it, why? I don't remember, but I think it was not that much, and I remember reading that in many places that the impact on new hardware is minimum. don't quote me though.

Yes, there is even a portable version. No need to install anything on a secondary computer.

Just put the portable version of VeraCrypt on the USB. You can run it from the USB-memory itself.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

Website is a treasure chest of information. The most simple is to decrypt, run chkdsk /r, and then if the structure doesn't appear in explorer, you can try running PhotoRec, and despite the name it can recover almost all files.

Make a clone copy if you can before doing any of this.

Rsync is the canonical solution to this.

If you only want backups and not necessarily a "sync", then search for deduplicated backup software.

My preferred software is restic. It also does encryption pretty well itself.

Step by step:

For full backup i use https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree So i have the Disk Image in my Hard Drive.

I did all, i put all correct, i try to encrypt 2 times.

First time: When i finish all steps and go to test, it just appeards me when restart the computer(for test) a Setup Boot Failed ( or something like these) im familiar with these and i know its because Secure Bootable Mode is enabled on BIOS, so i just go in , i put off in BIOS the secure bootable mode, and i try again, with "Kuznyechik" algorithm and it dosnt request me password, when it was restarting these time just like switched of automatically and then restarts again witouth requesting me any password.

EDIT1: You aparently know a lot about, how to do a easy backup off my PGP Keys? thanks. i just start taking serious security and privacy like some weeks ago, and i have to learn now all, its hard not easy.

I mean, i go to test the second time, it restarts, when it was restarting and putting on again, like 5s after it just auto restarts, and i heard a little sound like all putting offline, it just automatically 1s later switch on and he dosnt request me anything, so the conclusion is thath my Laptob can not be encrypted?

Feels bad man

Honestly, I'd never heard of Cryptomator before. Looking at the published feature set it seems to be exclusively a file-based container. Whereas VeraCrypt additionally offers partition (including the system partition to protect the OS) and whole drive encryption.

Creating a quick Cryptomator vault, I noticed the key generation was automatic, VeraCrypt includes user-based input (mouse movement) as part of its key generation. In my opinion, done right / taken seriously, this offers better entropy.

VeraCrypt offers 15 encryption and 4 hash algorithms to choose from.

VeraCrypt also offers PIM (Personal Iterations Multiplier) modification / customization.

VeraCrypt can use a keyfile.

I believe these items make VeraCrypt more secure but at the cost of requiring the user to be more sophisticated.

I'm not a hater, Cryptomator's ease of use may offer encryption to someone who may not otherwise leverage it and that is valuable.

Weird, I think there is a hidden recovery partition.

Use a partition software to check for hidden partitions, not the Windows built in one!!

Because you can encrypt the whole drive instead of partition.

https://gparted.org/

If you plan to go that route, then selfhosting is the only truly secure way. Nextcloud has end-to-end encryption: https://nextcloud.com/endtoend/

But cloud storage is not always a good substitute for local storage, which VeraCrypt is more tailored for.

While I'm not aware of any other programs on a PC that can open Veracrypt containers, I'd stick to using Veracrypt because you don't know how stable or reliable the other program is.

On my Android phone, I'm using EDS Pro to access containers.