>Is VeraCrypt truly equal or better than it's ancestor, TrueCrypt?
/g/ halp, I have one main concern about encryption. How likely is it possible to encounter problems like software/hardware bugs causing encrypted data to become corrupted.
I guess I'm more worried about losing access to the data than data security.
>Should I just leave it unencrypted, or can I trust that it won't get corrupted?
And advice is appreciated.
OP here
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>>53730758
Sounds like a standard responsibility clause to me...
>>53730736
It's highly unlikely that the encryption software would cause your files to bear corrupted. Though I believe it could happen if you're using some shady encryption software. However, you can't exactly tell when your HDD or SSD could fail, so it's a good idea to make frequent backups, just as they said.
>>53731837
to get corrupted*
>>53731837
Pretty much this.
The reason they tell you this is that while HDD can fail whether they're encrypted or not, if you do have encryption enabled, the errors can be amplified massively.
Consider if some error causes the volume header to be corrupted, destroying your master key. This would result in total data loss, unless you have backups of the header, because even though the sectors on the disk are still readable, you can't decrypt them anymore.
I've used VeraCrypt for a long time now, without issues. Just be sure to have backups of your important stuff. I can't say if it's actually secure though, because unlike TrueCrypt, there has been no audit on it. It's based on TrueCrypt, which was audited, but someone could've inserted backdoors after that for all anyone knows.
>>53732322
>Consider if some error causes the volume header to be corrupted, destroying your master key. This would result in total data loss, unless you have backups of the header, because even though the sectors on the disk are still readable, you can't decrypt them anymore.
The good news is that Veracrypt has a backup header at the end of the volume as well, so you'd need a serious fuck up to have that happen.
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I've used VeraCrypt for a long time now, without issues. Just be sure to have backups of your important stuff. I can't say if it's actually secure though, because unlike TrueCrypt, there has been no audit on it. It's based on TrueCrypt, which was audited, but someone could've inserted backdoors after that for all anyone knows.
The audit should be coming. Sometime. Eventually.
>>53733087
>need a serious fuck up to have that happen
So really, you could just say that if you have an error so serious that the encrypted data would be damaged, it would also have been damaged even if there was no encryption. A dead drive is dead no matter what data is on it.
