Techlore in regards to the Full Disk Encryption, does is delete all the files and programs you've installed on it? I know you said that the *Wipe Mode* doesn't remove your data, but there are others sites and videos and forum that do claim that it does. So what is the truth?
Great video! Two important information: 1) Your encrypted volume is only as strong as your password. Make sure it's at least 30 characters long, as your adversary can bruteforce it with trillions guesses per second. Something like - DonaldtheDADDYTrumpisTHICCboi!damn# is a strong and memorable password. 2) Hidden Volumes: They are made to give you a protection of plausible deniability. In certain jurisdiction, like the UK or (parts of) US, if the police finds your encrypted storage, you must give them a decryption key. With Veracrypt hidden volume, you actually create a decoy volume, where you store sensitively looking data. And the hidden encrypted volume stores your actually sensitive data. What's crucial is that these two volumes have DIFFERENT passwords. So that when you are asked by the law enforcement to hand over your decryption key, you can give them a password to your decoy volume and they will never know about the hidden volume. Always encrypt in a hidden volume. It's only one more step but will give you a tremendous security.
Great Points! I haven't used VeryCrypt or any other full disk encryption tool yet.... but what about volume sizes for the hidden volumes? Lets say I got a 8tb external hard drive which I want to encrypt. Can I just create a 7.9tb sized hidden volume and a 0.1tb visible regular "decoy" volume or would that be too obvious to law enforcement that there MUST be more than just a 100gb sized volume? Since they will probably notice that I use VeraCrypt can't they just infer that I am using a hidden volume (based on the 8tb sticker on the outside of the hard drive) which then I have to give them the decryption key anyway? Which then brings me back to the beginning ... why use a hidden volume in the first place when it is kinda obvious that there is one. Or does the hidden volume only makes sense for smaller volumes that are .. idk... just a couple gb in size? greetings
Official VeraCrypt advice is to use both hidden and decoy volume more or less equally. The size of the encrypted file is the sum of hidden and decoy volumes. If you can defend yourself by plausible deniability, law enforcement would have to prove there is another volume. Giving them access to your decoy volume shouldn't by itself reveal there is another volume or encrypted partition. It also shouldn't be possible to tell you are using veracrypt software. I don't have any legal experience with this. Follow this for more information www.veracrypt.fr/en/Plausible%20Deniability.html The fact that you can go to prison for merely encrypting your drive and refusing to give law enforcement access to it when they have no probable cause or reasonable suspicion is beyond terrifying. We are talking about democratic countries like the United Kingdom. How there are nor riots in the streets because of this is beyond me.
Thank you very much for this! It was the VeraCrypt Boot Loader in the video above (6:20 min) that made me think about it. But as long as one doesn't encrypt the system partition one should be on the safe side - as I understand it- since nobody can tell that VeraCrypt is used. Any info on how the security relates to the issues Truecrypt had in its final days - regarding any backdoors? Is it still a concern or is the issue already resolved and completely of the table as it is open source? Thats what always kept me away from using it - even though I will probably never be targeted by any law enforcement. But whats the point in using it if there is a backdoor. Many thanks in advance, I really appreciate it!
Techlore: Regarding the "demo" VeraCrypt file that you created: Upon creating the encrypted folder, you copied (not moved) your unencrypted folder and its files to the encrypted folder. You left behind the original folder and its files. Some folks, unfamiliar with this process, might believe that the original folder is now encrypted (which it is not). It should also be noted that if you move sensitive files, from your unencrypted drive, to your encrypted folder, a recovery program has a good chance of restoring (or un-deleting) the original files. The only files that have the protection of VeraCrypt's encryption are those that are in the encrypted folder. Everything that is, or was, outside of that encrypted folder is the same as it always was. Cheers!
Exactly what I thought.. You should always delete sensitive data originals with software like Eraser for example which will delete the file and overwrite the sector on disc where the file was originally.. Normal windows deletion is just windows marking the area on disc as ready to be overwritten with something else in the future but there might not come to that point on large drives esp. when you just recently deleted a lot of stuff, windows might not replace that sector for a long time and it could be recovered.. I heard there are also other softwares which can be set to slowly overwrite data in the background which were targetted by you for this process so that might be great if you work with a lot of such stuff, or just work with that sfuff in the encrypted drive.. Also note that some programs for example photoshop or aftereffects even browsers etc. utilize their own cache storage locations in which professionals can dig up the leftovers of files as these softwares dont tend to delete the cache files when you close the program and if they do, the just use the regular delete without overwriting the sectors on disk so the deleted cache files might be recoverable
This is great, I was fed up with Bitlocker setting for Home edition Windows with all the fake videos not giving any solution. But after learning this, it's so easy to secure private data
Excellent initiativ! One thing I've always felt is missing in the whole discussion about privacy, is the low-tech, often used, examples of private data being used. Everyone knows that their data is being collected, stored and used. But few seem to understand what it means and why they should care. Facebook, Google, Apple and all the others are doing a great job convincing people it is for statistics and analytics only. We need a video showing examples of Price-disciminations. (Air-line and hotels are easiest to show this exaple with). comercials following you around the web/targeted adds. Prices of products going up/down the more you revisit a site. 2FA phone numbers being sold to add-vendors. Generally "Hands on" examples where your data are being 'mis'used against you as a person/consumer. I believe such a video would be very useful to inform the non-technical people why their private information is important
Yo so i just wanted to add some info. I thought i was locked out of my system. When i tested it, veracrypt on the bootscreen was asking for my password and then a "pim". I did not set a "pim", when i set everything up. I thought i was screwed. My fix for this was... after you enter you password and it asks for pim type "SHA-512" caps necessary. I thought i just screwed myself so bad. Hope this hells someone in a panic like i was
Omggg , nice video once again! I really wanted to see someone talking about Vera at this day and age but i guess youtubers kinda just think that everyone knows about such tools and they know how to use them, but in reality they really dont 😂😂
Thanks. There are loads of really complicated things that are supposed to make you more secure, but there is always some simple hack to it. This can potentially be a very secure security measure. Especially when you don't leave the USB plugged in!!
Note that at 2:46, the 3rd option in the Volume Creation Wizard, to "Encrypt the system partition...", does NOT exist if running VeraCrypt in Linux. This is a *Windows-only* option. Also note that the entire "System" menu, shown at 6:30 for instance, ONLY shows up when running VeraCrypt on *Windows*!
Well done sir, I now have a way to store many years of personal stuff, something that has been annoying the fuck out of me a long long time. Thank you!
@Techlore - Great video! I think it would be great if you did a video on a comparison of various different encryption methods (e.g. VeraCrypt vs LUKS vs GELI etc). It would also be worth mentioning about hidden volumes and the benefits thereof (e.g. plausible deniability).
Thank you for explaining the program. It still looks a bit complicated to me. And I wonder what the other options and things are for. But I guess you have explained all the things that are necessary to operate the program for an average computer user, like me🤗. Thanks again. And I will try it out for my files.
verycrypt is great. as someone running multiple hard drives, I wanted a non-system fully encrypted for private storage however always having to manually mount them for use can get tedious. I wonder why you didn't touch on crucial functions such as system favourites and automount. Regardless, good introduction.
One thing: when you clicked "Select File" you never explicitly selected a file, at leastthat I could detect. Is that because VeraCrypt will create (what we're calling) a file (i.e. the container) in that location? This was unclear. But if so, it seemed to defeat the purpose of navigating to "select a file", so that whole process is as confusing AF. Plus that VeraCrypt warning that I read. "If you select an existing file, VeraCrypt will not encrypt it" only compounded the confusing nature of the instruction. But I think I get it now. Can you please confirm that in the Select File dialog box, we are merely navigating to the place where we will create the container but we don't select any file?
It was easy until you got to the volume location. You selected Desktop but what happened to that window after you selected that? Your mouse disappeared and the next thing the File Manager window disappeared and you were back in the Encryption window. What did you do after you selected Desktop?
Many thanks for the great tutorial I’m curious how to handle this warning when I try to mount the volume i get this warning ( Kext load failed) Next Line says (mount_osxfuse: the file system is not available (255)
Now that supercomputers exist in the world then would it be possible for the devices to decrypt veracrypt containers? Governments and mega-corporations could easily afford to purchase or rent these supercomputers so it is believable to an extent.
Instead of AxCrypt, can't you just drop your "demo" container in dropbox and have it sync across devices? Does Dropbox recognize the changes everytime you add files to container, or container hash never changes so dropbox doesn't recognize updates?
Thank you for this great video, i have an Emmc can i wipe it one time also ? Also can i create the backup disk on the hard disk an move it to a micro SD on my phone wich is encrypted by the phone?
Great video. You said you Question: @ 2:55 when you are selecting a volume to encrypt, are you selecting a file or a folder named demo? The reason I ask, you mentioned you can encrypt a file or folder, and I cannot select a folder to encrypt but I can select a file. Thanks for the clarification!
There was some misunderstanding on your part. You cannot encrypt neither file nor folder as-is (in their location). You encrypt them by moving them (or creating them) to the Veracrypt volume.
Is there a way to easily mount the drive without having to open up the program and doing it manually? (non-system full disk encryption) Also, something very dangerous is that if you try to open the drive in windows explorer it will prompt you to format the disk. If you click format it instantly deletes all the data, encrypts and you lose everything... Is there a way to prevent this from happening?
Hi. Thank you for this guid. I've took all steps as you mentioned, but in Volume Format I took forever to format. I terminate this after 3 hours of 1 GB format.
Hi. Thanks for the video. I am testing out the software on SD cards. Encrypting is fine, but when mounting I'm having problems - I've never been able to mount using just the keyfile, I can sometimes mount with just the password, and sometimes I need both the password and the keyfile. Is there a bug in my software or my version of windows or am I doing something wrong? Windows 10 Pro 2004.
Hello I have an external SSD Drive for my backup of docs and stuff. its currently consuming 85% of the disk space. I want to encrypt all of the data on that drive without formatting or loosing any data. Plz explain the process to do it. Secondly, it will be used on couple of different PCs. than what will be the process to access and backup file from 2nd and third PCs? Appriciated!
What happens when encrypted disk gets corrupted for whatever reason? Sometimes a simple power shortage can introduce corrupted sector(s) which can be easily fixed with Win scanner. Is it going to work the same way with encrypted disk? What about partition image backups and restores? Restoring backup image from one disk to another? Is the image mountable? What happens to data copied from encrypted disk to unencrypted?
Would I install a portable version of VeraCrypt onto an external SSD if I want to be able to access files on a computer that does not have Veracrypt? I've been using my schools google drive account to store most of my research and all of the textbook pdfs I've collected over the years. But I want to save this information on an external drive so if I ever lose access to my school account I'll have all of my research and textbooks. From what I read online it sounds like I'm on the right path but just wanted to clarify before I start downloading everything.
Also how to use Veracrypt combined with Samsung SSD hardware level encryption if someone has no TPM on their motherboard, no system lag when hardware level encryption is used, but not sure if Veracrypt would need a TPM like Bitlocker does
So I have a question.. Could you perhaps encrypt a folder like you did and ut it on a cloud shared drive? For example: lets say you have around 30 workers and you want only 5 to have access to this folder but they all have access to the cloud shared drive. Is it possible to open the encrypted files from the devices not using veracrypt?
Thanks for tutorial I have a question. Is it possible to change size of encrypted folder after time? Or I just have to create new, larger one and move everything in and delete old, empty one?
Hey there & thanks for your question! Unfortunately, due to time constraints we are unable to answer technical questions in the comments. We have a forum (recommended) & a Discord server for you to get help from our communities. Otherwise there are many great privacy-focused public Matrix communities! Forum: discuss.techlore.tech/ Discord: discord.techlore.tech/ - S
Awesome video. I never used Veracrypt before so I have a question. Can I mount an encrypted volume over a local network? Ideally, I would want to share a network share residing on my Synology RT2600 router between my laptop and my desktop. Possibly login remotely using the VPN Plus Server app on the router from my laptop if I'm away from home. Can this be done with Veracrypt?
I heard that once you plug in your encrypted hard drive to the computer, your computer wont recognize the format so it will ask you to reformat the drive. I understand that you click no and go into the mounting process but it deterred me enough not to encrypt. One day someone else puts the drive in or even myself, I am worried that they will erase everything on my drive by reformatting. Is this true? If not, what happens to the drive when you plug it into the computer? Does it recognize it?
Also, if the computer you are trying to use to access the drive doesn’t have internet and does not have the software installed, can I still access my drive?
But if a file is saved to a physical usb drive and allocated to a specific drive location, then the usb can only ever be unencrypted on that same computer right? I wouldn’t be able to take that usb and plug it into any other computer to access the data on it right? Also do you find Veracrypt noticeably slows down a system on an ssd? thanks
It states OSXFUSE must be installed but that requires I give remote access of my new MacBook to some random dude this obviously makes me uncomfortable 😣 is there an alternative program or a work around any help will be greatly appreciated
Does Veracrypt (if just securing the windows system partition and not ‘whole disk’) need to be decrypted each time Windows needs an update? Read in some forums that there is/was an issue like that? Or is/was that just with full disk encryption? Thanks
i do not understand how it would work if I want to retrieve the folder I encrypted from another PC. let say I encrypted the folder in PC one, how would I access the folder from PC two?
How much safe our data in vearcrypt file? Is there any chances for corrupt our data if we open after long time?, Was this file support in future version software? Please reply me
i have nvme as an external storage usb & i want to encrypt but also access from my android device over usb so i have it in exfat. i cant run veracrypt on android to decrypt / view files = EDS Lite ? is there something in Fdroid?
1. Still the best in 2021? 2. If open-source and no longer supported... doesn't that mean will become vulnerable somehow? 3. Why no more than 1-wipe for SSDs? Thanks!
when i get to "Rescue Disk Recording" stage and hit Next, i get an error message stating "cannot verify that the rescue disk has been correctly extracted" and won't proceed. I formatted the USB stick but it only has exFat and NSFT or something, but not FAT/FAT32 as is demanded. Help please.
Does veracrypt is compatible with Android? I want to encrypt my SanDisk pendrive. Initially I encrypted it with bitlocker but then I can only use it in windows. My SanDisk pendrive has USB type C port too, so I want to use it in Android and MacOS also. Veracrypt is compatible with MacOS but is it compatible with Android??
Used to use true crypt then veracrypt, after I upgraded my motherboard and processor my windows installed in gpd not mbr and can't get veracrypt to work. Any ideas other than reinstall windows in mbr?
If i copy a file from an encrypted drive to a non encrypted drive or media (flash drive, DVD+R disk) will i need the password to open the file in the new location?
Can you do a video on how to back up your recovery disk to usb and how to uses that recovery disk, i been trying to do it and cant seem to get it to work using veracrypt
I really like this video. I learned a lot more about encrypting my files. Are there any other things similar to veracrypt that are FOSS also? And others that are not FOSS? #FOSSFORTHEWIN
Question: can you make an existing folder encrypted? I know this may sound like a silly question, but say I have a 1TB HDD and the files I wanna encrypt occupy more than half of the drive's volume... then I'm not going to be able to make an encrypted volume big enough to store all the files, because there is just not enough space, right? Also, is the decrypting process heavily CPU dependent? I'm currently on a decent Desktop PC but before long I'll be using a laptop which granted, has a decent cpu and a dedicated nvidia card, but still is a far cry from my desktop, so I was wondering if decrypting a 500 folder might take days, or just grind to a halt indefinitely.
Hmm I’ve actually never considered this before. But yes you’re probably right, you won’t be able to create an encrypted volume the same size as your folder because you don’t have enough space for that. Some options: - Just encrypt the entire drive. Not sure how open you are to simply just enabling full disk encryption. - Using an alternative. There’s GNU Privacy Guard or you could even use something like 7-zip to archive that folder into an encrypted, password protected zip or other extension. And yes this is almost 100% CPU, so I’d recommend getting every shred of power if you’re working with 500gb
@@techlore Thanks for the super quick reply! Ok I just did a quick test on my laptop and tried encrypting a 1GB volume, creating it was quick and decrypting was pretty much instant. Even though it's a laptop, it has a 8th gen 8265U which is 4c8t and goes up to 3.9Ghz, so it might not be that much worse than my Haswell 4c4t 3Ghz cpu, actually it might be better than my desktop's lol. Regarding the size issue, now that I'm thinking about it, it shouldnt be that big a deal: I'll just take 200GB (or do some cleaning, afterall I dont need all of the stuff that's on it... oh it's movies, nothing too illegal ahah) or so out of the HDD and put them on my desktop's memory, and then I'll have enough space to create the encrypted volume on the extHDD. After that I'll move them back on it. (or yeah, I could encrypt the whole drive, with a hidden volume inside, that might be the easiest route) Tonight I'm going to try doing 100GB volume just to see order how much it takes, and tomorrow I'll do the whole thing, drive or volume. Thanks for the tutorial, the part about hidden volumes and the mounting options to keep the hidden volume safe is really a must-know. Happy new year!
Little update: did the 100GB one on my desktop, took 30min. not that bad. I might opt for the volume encrypt instead of full drive so it takes less time. mounting it and opening it on the laptop was quick, so if I can get everything done on my desktop before I depart I should be fine
@@techlore have you had any experience with single folders just up and vanishing from hidden volumes? this might be a w10 issue since I've heard of similar stuff about it, but I thought to ask
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0:20 - Veracrypt Intro
1:56 - Encrypt Items
5:14 - Encrypt System
6:38 - Outro
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Techlore in regards to the Full Disk Encryption, does is delete all the files and programs you've installed on it? I know you said that the *Wipe Mode* doesn't remove your data, but there are others sites and videos and forum that do claim that it does. So what is the truth?
www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/7s6ljr/what_does_veracrypt_mean_by_wipe/
Hello, so, to decrypt and access my files, VeraCrypt should be installed on my computer?
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Great video! Two important information:
1) Your encrypted volume is only as strong as your password. Make sure it's at least 30 characters long, as your adversary can bruteforce it with trillions guesses per second. Something like - DonaldtheDADDYTrumpisTHICCboi!damn# is a strong and memorable password.
2) Hidden Volumes: They are made to give you a protection of plausible deniability. In certain jurisdiction, like the UK or (parts of) US, if the police finds your encrypted storage, you must give them a decryption key. With Veracrypt hidden volume, you actually create a decoy volume, where you store sensitively looking data. And the hidden encrypted volume stores your actually sensitive data. What's crucial is that these two volumes have DIFFERENT passwords. So that when you are asked by the law enforcement to hand over your decryption key, you can give them a password to your decoy volume and they will never know about the hidden volume.
Always encrypt in a hidden volume. It's only one more step but will give you a tremendous security.
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"DonaldtheDADDYTrumpisTHICCboi!damn#" is the very genius and funny Hahahha
Great Points!
I haven't used VeryCrypt or any other full disk encryption tool yet....
but what about volume sizes for the hidden volumes? Lets say I got a 8tb external hard drive which I want to encrypt. Can I just create a 7.9tb sized hidden volume and a 0.1tb visible regular "decoy" volume or would that be too obvious to law enforcement that there MUST be more than just a 100gb sized volume?
Since they will probably notice that I use VeraCrypt can't they just infer that I am using a hidden volume (based on the 8tb sticker on the outside of the hard drive) which then I have to give them the decryption key anyway? Which then brings me back to the beginning ... why use a hidden volume in the first place when it is kinda obvious that there is one.
Or does the hidden volume only makes sense for smaller volumes that are .. idk... just a couple gb in size?
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Official VeraCrypt advice is to use both hidden and decoy volume more or less equally. The size of the encrypted file is the sum of hidden and decoy volumes. If you can defend yourself by plausible deniability, law enforcement would have to prove there is another volume. Giving them access to your decoy volume shouldn't by itself reveal there is another volume or encrypted partition. It also shouldn't be possible to tell you are using veracrypt software. I don't have any legal experience with this. Follow this for more information www.veracrypt.fr/en/Plausible%20Deniability.html
The fact that you can go to prison for merely encrypting your drive and refusing to give law enforcement access to it when they have no probable cause or reasonable suspicion is beyond terrifying. We are talking about democratic countries like the United Kingdom. How there are nor riots in the streets because of this is beyond me.
Thank you very much for this!
It was the VeraCrypt Boot Loader in the video above (6:20 min) that made me think about it. But as long as one doesn't encrypt the system partition one should be on the safe side - as I understand it- since nobody can tell that VeraCrypt is used.
Any info on how the security relates to the issues Truecrypt had in its final days - regarding any backdoors?
Is it still a concern or is the issue already resolved and completely of the table as it is open source?
Thats what always kept me away from using it - even though I will probably never be targeted by any law enforcement. But whats the point in using it if there is a backdoor.
Many thanks in advance, I really appreciate it!
This was the easiest and best explained tutorial I could have asked for. Thank you!
Techlore:
Regarding the "demo" VeraCrypt file that you created:
Upon creating the encrypted folder, you copied (not moved) your unencrypted folder and its files to the encrypted folder.
You left behind the original folder and its files. Some folks, unfamiliar with this process, might believe that the original folder is now encrypted (which it is not).
It should also be noted that if you move sensitive files, from your unencrypted drive, to your encrypted folder, a recovery program has a good chance of restoring (or un-deleting) the original files.
The only files that have the protection of VeraCrypt's encryption are those that are in the encrypted folder. Everything that is, or was, outside of that encrypted folder is the same as it always was.
Cheers!
Exactly what I thought.. You should always delete sensitive data originals with software like Eraser for example which will delete the file and overwrite the sector on disc where the file was originally.. Normal windows deletion is just windows marking the area on disc as ready to be overwritten with something else in the future but there might not come to that point on large drives esp. when you just recently deleted a lot of stuff, windows might not replace that sector for a long time and it could be recovered.. I heard there are also other softwares which can be set to slowly overwrite data in the background which were targetted by you for this process so that might be great if you work with a lot of such stuff, or just work with that sfuff in the encrypted drive.. Also note that some programs for example photoshop or aftereffects even browsers etc. utilize their own cache storage locations in which professionals can dig up the leftovers of files as these softwares dont tend to delete the cache files when you close the program and if they do, the just use the regular delete without overwriting the sectors on disk so the deleted cache files might be recoverable
Agreed encrypt and burn the source as it's the only way to be sure.
This is great, I was fed up with Bitlocker setting for Home edition Windows with all the fake videos not giving any solution.
But after learning this, it's so easy to secure private data
Why dont use you Linux instead of Windows? Windows is bad security to begin with.
1:57 file/folder Encryption
5:14 Full Disk Encryption
Wow. This was straight forward, informational and very helpful. I feel comfortable using veracrypt after watching this. Thank you.
Best of luck!
The best video I have found on UA-cam about this topic. Nice and concise!
Excellent initiativ! One thing I've always felt is missing in the whole discussion about privacy, is the low-tech, often used, examples of private data being used.
Everyone knows that their data is being collected, stored and used. But few seem to understand what it means and why they should care. Facebook, Google, Apple and all the others are doing a great job convincing people it is for statistics and analytics only. We need a video showing examples of Price-disciminations. (Air-line and hotels are easiest to show this exaple with). comercials following you around the web/targeted adds. Prices of products going up/down the more you revisit a site. 2FA phone numbers being sold to add-vendors. Generally "Hands on" examples where your data are being 'mis'used against you as a person/consumer. I believe such a video would be very useful to inform the non-technical people why their private information is important
I am using Vera crypt for a long time now. Great program. Nice tutorial!
Yo so i just wanted to add some info. I thought i was locked out of my system. When i tested it, veracrypt on the bootscreen was asking for my password and then a "pim". I did not set a "pim", when i set everything up. I thought i was screwed. My fix for this was... after you enter you password and it asks for pim type "SHA-512" caps necessary. I thought i just screwed myself so bad. Hope this hells someone in a panic like i was
All you have to do is hit enter if you dont set one
Uh, they changed "pim" to "pin", and it now tell to leave it empty if you didn't set a pin
Omggg , nice video once again! I really wanted to see someone talking about Vera at this day and age but i guess youtubers kinda just think that everyone knows about such tools and they know how to use them, but in reality they really dont 😂😂
Also btw, what do you think about AxCrypt, there is a free versiom but you also have 14days trial i think for a pro
I’m not seeing a major advantage over Veracrypt (for encryption purposes)
Thanks. There are loads of really complicated things that are supposed to make you more secure, but there is always some simple hack to it. This can potentially be a very secure security measure. Especially when you don't leave the USB plugged in!!
Great info from a great personality, keep up the great work!
Great video. And you have to give it to the veracrypt developers too. They make the process relatively painless.
Great video im still new to all of this but your videos really help making everything less scary ha ha 🖒
Glad to hear 😊
Straight forward and very informative. Gave me a nice idea of what to expect before I download and use it for external drive backups. Nice Video!
Awesome video man!
Note that at 2:46, the 3rd option in the Volume Creation Wizard, to "Encrypt the system partition...", does NOT exist if running VeraCrypt in Linux. This is a *Windows-only* option. Also note that the entire "System" menu, shown at 6:30 for instance, ONLY shows up when running VeraCrypt on *Windows*!
@Trixie K Agreed. I use LUKS full-disk encryption on Linux.
Thanks for the tutorial just recently stumble on this amazing software.
Well done sir, I now have a way to store many years of personal stuff, something that has been annoying the fuck out of me a long long time. Thank you!
@Techlore - Great video!
I think it would be great if you did a video on a comparison of various different encryption methods (e.g. VeraCrypt vs LUKS vs GELI etc). It would also be worth mentioning about hidden volumes and the benefits thereof (e.g. plausible deniability).
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Simple and easy explanation. Thank you
I am giving you a thumbs up for this video. Yes this video did tach me how to use the program but the Chowder refence pushed it over the top.
So simple! thanks, very helpful video. Cheers from Chile :)
Thank you for explaining the program. It still looks a bit complicated to me. And I wonder what the other options and things are for. But I guess you have explained all the things that are necessary to operate the program for an average computer user, like me🤗. Thanks again. And I will try it out for my files.
verycrypt is great. as someone running multiple hard drives, I wanted a non-system fully encrypted for private storage however always having to manually mount them for use can get tedious. I wonder why you didn't touch on crucial functions such as system favourites and automount. Regardless, good introduction.
One thing: when you clicked "Select File" you never explicitly selected a file, at leastthat I could detect. Is that because VeraCrypt will create (what we're calling) a file (i.e. the container) in that location? This was unclear. But if so, it seemed to defeat the purpose of navigating to "select a file", so that whole process is as confusing AF. Plus that VeraCrypt warning that I read. "If you select an existing file, VeraCrypt will not encrypt it" only compounded the confusing nature of the instruction. But I think I get it now. Can you please confirm that in the Select File dialog box, we are merely navigating to the place where we will create the container but we don't select any file?
Got any help with it or not?
Been looking for a solution like this, thank you!
It was easy until you got to the volume location. You selected Desktop but what happened to that window after you selected that? Your mouse disappeared and the next thing the File Manager window disappeared and you were back in the Encryption window. What did you do after you selected Desktop?
Thank you very very much for this excellent video.
Many thanks for the great tutorial I’m curious how to handle this warning when I try to mount the volume i get this warning ( Kext load failed) Next Line says (mount_osxfuse: the file system is not available (255)
Now that supercomputers exist in the world then would it be possible for the devices to decrypt veracrypt containers? Governments and mega-corporations could easily afford to purchase or rent these supercomputers so it is believable to an extent.
Use supercomputers to encrypt files.
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Instead of AxCrypt, can't you just drop your "demo" container in dropbox and have it sync across devices? Does Dropbox recognize the changes everytime you add files to container, or container hash never changes so dropbox doesn't recognize updates?
Thank you for this great video, i have an Emmc can i wipe it one time also ? Also can i create the backup disk on the hard disk an move it to a micro SD on my phone wich is encrypted by the phone?
Great video. You said you Question: @ 2:55 when you are selecting a volume to encrypt, are you selecting a file or a folder named demo? The reason I ask, you mentioned you can encrypt a file or folder, and I cannot select a folder to encrypt but I can select a file. Thanks for the clarification!
There was some misunderstanding on your part. You cannot encrypt neither file nor folder as-is (in their location). You encrypt them by moving them (or creating them) to the Veracrypt volume.
I'm probably going to look into more detail about veracrypt and drive in encryption so I don't mess things up
Sounds good!
thank you veracrypt is amazing
Is there a way to easily mount the drive without having to open up the program and doing it manually? (non-system full disk encryption)
Also, something very dangerous is that if you try to open the drive in windows explorer it will prompt you to format the disk. If you click format it instantly deletes all the data, encrypts and you lose everything... Is there a way to prevent this from happening?
Hi. Thank you for this guid. I've took all steps as you mentioned, but in Volume Format I took forever to format. I terminate this after 3 hours of 1 GB format.
Hi. Thanks for the video. I am testing out the software on SD cards. Encrypting is fine, but when mounting I'm having problems - I've never been able to mount using just the keyfile, I can sometimes mount with just the password, and sometimes I need both the password and the keyfile. Is there a bug in my software or my version of windows or am I doing something wrong?
Windows 10 Pro 2004.
Hello
I have an external SSD Drive for my backup of docs and stuff. its currently consuming 85% of the disk space. I want to encrypt all of the data on that drive without formatting or loosing any data. Plz explain the process to do it.
Secondly, it will be used on couple of different PCs. than what will be the process to access and backup file from 2nd and third PCs?
Appriciated!
great job! why does open source software always have to be 80's-level user-friendly (70's in case of github)
😂 Im using gpt to make a new gui
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What happens when encrypted disk gets corrupted for whatever reason?
Sometimes a simple power shortage can introduce corrupted sector(s) which can be easily fixed with Win scanner. Is it going to work the same way with encrypted disk?
What about partition image backups and restores?
Restoring backup image from one disk to another? Is the image mountable?
What happens to data copied from encrypted disk to unencrypted?
Can you move a veracrypt folder onto an external solid state drive (SSD)? Will the file retain its encryption?
Great video and awesome software.
How could I stop someone from accidently formatting an encrypted USB which would just wipe all the data from it
What you mean bruh
1) How would you compare Veracrypt to LUKS?
2) Can password managers effectively be used to create long, random passwords for full disk encryption?
Thanks, why not using 7zip encryption for file or folder ?
Would I install a portable version of VeraCrypt onto an external SSD if I want to be able to access files on a computer that does not have Veracrypt? I've been using my schools google drive account to store most of my research and all of the textbook pdfs I've collected over the years. But I want to save this information on an external drive so if I ever lose access to my school account I'll have all of my research and textbooks. From what I read online it sounds like I'm on the right path but just wanted to clarify before I start downloading everything.
Also how to use Veracrypt combined with Samsung SSD hardware level encryption if someone has no TPM on their motherboard, no system lag when hardware level encryption is used, but not sure if Veracrypt would need a TPM like Bitlocker does
So I have a question.. Could you perhaps encrypt a folder like you did and ut it on a cloud shared drive?
For example: lets say you have around 30 workers and you want only 5 to have access to this folder but they all have access to the cloud shared drive.
Is it possible to open the encrypted files from the devices not using veracrypt?
look more into using cryptomator
Thanks for tutorial I have a question. Is it possible to change size of encrypted folder after time? Or I just have to create new, larger one and move everything in and delete old, empty one?
Hey there & thanks for your question! Unfortunately, due to time constraints we are unable to answer technical questions in the comments. We have a forum (recommended) & a Discord server for you to get help from our communities. Otherwise there are many great privacy-focused public Matrix communities!
Forum: discuss.techlore.tech/
Discord: discord.techlore.tech/
- S
Awesome video. I never used Veracrypt before so I have a question. Can I mount an encrypted volume over a local network? Ideally, I would want to share a network share residing on my Synology RT2600 router between my laptop and my desktop. Possibly login remotely using the VPN Plus Server app on the router from my laptop if I'm away from home. Can this be done with Veracrypt?
I heard that once you plug in your encrypted hard drive to the computer, your computer wont recognize the format so it will ask you to reformat the drive. I understand that you click no and go into the mounting process but it deterred me enough not to encrypt. One day someone else puts the drive in or even myself, I am worried that they will erase everything on my drive by reformatting. Is this true? If not, what happens to the drive when you plug it into the computer? Does it recognize it?
Also, if the computer you are trying to use to access the drive doesn’t have internet and does not have the software installed, can I still access my drive?
@@SolidBrowser There is a portable version of the software you can carry on a flash drive or access via the cloud
Thank you for this tutorial
You're welcome 😊 - S
But if a file is saved to a physical usb drive and allocated to a specific drive location, then the usb can only ever be unencrypted on that same computer right? I wouldn’t be able to take that usb and plug it into any other computer to access the data on it right?
Also do you find Veracrypt noticeably slows down a system on an ssd? thanks
It states OSXFUSE must be installed but that requires I give remote access of my new MacBook to some random dude this obviously makes me uncomfortable 😣 is there an alternative program or a work around any help will be greatly appreciated
Does Veracrypt (if just securing the windows system partition and not ‘whole disk’) need to be decrypted each time Windows needs an update? Read in some forums that there is/was an issue like that? Or is/was that just with full disk encryption? Thanks
I got stuck on the rescue disk part. Wish you showed that lol
just a secondary drive (like a usb stick or ssd disk) that acts as a backup should anything happen to your main encrypted drive
VeraCrypt stop accepting extended Latin text and extended characters for new volumes. Any links as to why?
If you clean install an operating system on a system drive with full encryption, can you recover the files in that drive after?
i do not understand how it would work if I want to retrieve the folder I encrypted from another PC. let say I encrypted the folder in PC one, how would I access the folder from PC two?
How much safe our data in vearcrypt file? Is there any chances for corrupt our data if we open after long time?, Was this file support in future version software?
Please reply me
i have nvme as an external storage usb & i want to encrypt but also access from my android device over usb so i have it in exfat. i cant run veracrypt on android to decrypt / view files = EDS Lite
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is there something in Fdroid?
1. Still the best in 2021?
2. If open-source and no longer supported... doesn't that mean will become vulnerable somehow?
3. Why no more than 1-wipe for SSDs?
Thanks!
when i get to "Rescue Disk Recording" stage and hit Next, i get an error message stating "cannot verify that the rescue disk has been correctly extracted" and won't proceed. I formatted the USB stick but it only has exFat and NSFT or something, but not FAT/FAT32 as is demanded. Help please.
Hi, can you open this in another computer if you're encrypting a usb drive?
What is I, for any reason, have to reinstall windows? What will happen to the encrypted files/folders?
Ok i have ssd disk and hdd. Ssd was windows. I encrypt hdd d partition (no system partition). Now i start pc and i have "missing operation system" -.-
Excellent guide
So what happens to something I delete in the encrypted volume for the folder?
Nice video, but unfortunately you didn’t walk us through the process of disk rescue. I’m stuck there for some reason 😅😅😅
What if I want to encrypt a folder and then upload it to a Cloud Storage Solution? How would I do that?
Does veracrypt is compatible with Android?
I want to encrypt my SanDisk pendrive.
Initially I encrypted it with bitlocker but then I can only use it in windows. My SanDisk pendrive has USB type C port too, so I want to use it in Android and MacOS also. Veracrypt is compatible with MacOS but is it compatible with Android??
Used to use true crypt then veracrypt, after I upgraded my motherboard and processor my windows installed in gpd not mbr and can't get veracrypt to work. Any ideas other than reinstall windows in mbr?
How to disable full disk veractypt encryption in Ubuntu?
Please tell me
In full disk encryption, is there a problem if i install Veracrypt in the same drive that i want to encypt?
If i copy a file from an encrypted drive to a non encrypted drive or media (flash drive, DVD+R disk) will i need the password to open the file in the new location?
Is this still good for late 2020?
Awesome!
Not as awesome as YOUUUU
Can i full encrypt both my disks on fedora now?
i was good till 4:21...then i got lost..the mounting part
You can do auto mount and just enter the password that is needed to unlock your encrypted drive/folder.
It seems very similar to TrueCrypt. Or is just a coincidence ?
So i mount when I want to access my files and dismount when finished?
Full disk encryption is supported by the Linux version, but not the system disk.
What happens when you boot up a fully encrypted drive? You don't show that. Do you need to enter the password? Any use for a TPM with Veracrypt?
6:18
Can you do a video on how to back up your recovery disk to usb and how to uses that recovery disk, i been trying to do it and cant seem to get it to work using veracrypt
yeah my question exactly!
My computer doesn't have a disk drive. How do I create a rescue disk?
Can you delete the main folder from desktop after it is encrypted?
I really like this video. I learned a lot more about encrypting my files. Are there any other things similar to veracrypt that are FOSS also? And others that are not FOSS? #FOSSFORTHEWIN
Is it possible to vary the size of the encryption volume after its creation?
Strong answer...likely no.
Long answer... sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/general/thread/c011ff54/
So VeraCrypt is not applicable on Linux Server?
Is there an equivalent on Linux Server?
I only encrypt my drive to protect people from stealing my PC see what I do on chrome, no one will ever see what I do on chrome now. 👍
well .... except google :)
r/whoosh
Thanks so much!
Question: can you make an existing folder encrypted?
I know this may sound like a silly question, but say I have a 1TB HDD and the files I wanna encrypt occupy more than half of the drive's volume... then I'm not going to be able to make an encrypted volume big enough to store all the files, because there is just not enough space, right?
Also, is the decrypting process heavily CPU dependent? I'm currently on a decent Desktop PC but before long I'll be using a laptop which granted, has a decent cpu and a dedicated nvidia card, but still is a far cry from my desktop, so I was wondering if decrypting a 500 folder might take days, or just grind to a halt indefinitely.
Hmm I’ve actually never considered this before. But yes you’re probably right, you won’t be able to create an encrypted volume the same size as your folder because you don’t have enough space for that. Some options:
- Just encrypt the entire drive. Not sure how open you are to simply just enabling full disk encryption.
- Using an alternative. There’s GNU Privacy Guard or you could even use something like 7-zip to archive that folder into an encrypted, password protected zip or other extension.
And yes this is almost 100% CPU, so I’d recommend getting every shred of power if you’re working with 500gb
@@techlore Thanks for the super quick reply!
Ok I just did a quick test on my laptop and tried encrypting a 1GB volume, creating it was quick and decrypting was pretty much instant.
Even though it's a laptop, it has a 8th gen 8265U which is 4c8t and goes up to 3.9Ghz, so it might not be that much worse than my Haswell 4c4t 3Ghz cpu, actually it might be better than my desktop's lol.
Regarding the size issue, now that I'm thinking about it, it shouldnt be that big a deal: I'll just take 200GB (or do some cleaning, afterall I dont need all of the stuff that's on it... oh it's movies, nothing too illegal ahah) or so out of the HDD and put them on my desktop's memory, and then I'll have enough space to create the encrypted volume on the extHDD. After that I'll move them back on it.
(or yeah, I could encrypt the whole drive, with a hidden volume inside, that might be the easiest route)
Tonight I'm going to try doing 100GB volume just to see order how much it takes, and tomorrow I'll do the whole thing, drive or volume.
Thanks for the tutorial, the part about hidden volumes and the mounting options to keep the hidden volume safe is really a must-know.
Happy new year!
Little update: did the 100GB one on my desktop, took 30min. not that bad. I might opt for the volume encrypt instead of full drive so it takes less time.
mounting it and opening it on the laptop was quick, so if I can get everything done on my desktop before I depart I should be fine
Glad to hear it worked out! Congrats on the new setup
@@techlore have you had any experience with single folders just up and vanishing from hidden volumes?
this might be a w10 issue since I've heard of similar stuff about it, but I thought to ask
I have Ex4 file encrypted so how can editing on it .how can compile it ? I use mt4 platform
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Very Interesting