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**** When using RAW drives, my default preference, Veracrypt gives you a warning specifically stating "Warning: If you encrypt the entire device (as opposed to encrypting only a partition on it), operating systems will consider the device as new, empty, and unformatted (as it will contain no partition table) That's how you think you maintain the security of a security application? Someone reports a possible issue and you say "I don't think that's true so therefore it's not true."? Yeah, that's a terrible system. All you are doing is yelling "UR WRONG CAUSE ME SAY SO AHHH!" and that's dumb, because it accomplishes nothing. I would love for someone to say "You're doing x wrong which is what is causing this" or "This is something we were unaware of" but you are doing nether. Do you think a third party would be able to do that without your hidden volume password? Stick in a flash drive and click a single icon? I feel like they could, I really do. This has nothing to do with passwords, mounting, or any of that, and you know how you can tell? In my steps to recreate I never said you had to mount anything, or do ANYTHING AT ALL, beyond boot Tails and run the built in veracrypt app. If I take the same exact make and model drive, and using the VeraCrypt Volume Creation Wizard to create a Standard VeraCrypt volume, the veracrypt tool in Tails only lists a single "Partitions and Drives" to unlock. Now, if I take the drive that I created using the steps above, and connect it to a PC, boot that PC with Tails, and launch the Tails veracrypt app, I am presented with not one, but multiple "Partitions and Drives" to unlock. How does my failure to understand the concept of hidden partitions have an impact on how the application, using the default settings of the hidden partition creation wizard? Is there a certain way I should be pushing the next button? Veracrypt (Windows 10 install): Tools -> Volume Creation Wizard -> Encrypt a non-system partition/drive -> Hidden Veracrypt volume -> Normal mode -> Select RAW HDD -> **** -> Encryption Options Default -> Size, uneditable -> Password -> Large Files - Yes -> ExFAT, default cluster, or 4KB depending on what the drive is for, Quick Format obviously left unchecked.
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Hidden volumes, what's not to get?Įvery time I tested this issue, I started with a raw 2TB WD HDD. Neat huh? Isn't information neat? When you open your mind, you'll find it can process, and even store, information-crazy!Īnd here's the bottom line. (See what I did there? That's you).įirst, Tails absolutely is something special, and not just another linux distro, specifically because it uses a custom-built tool for interacting with Veracrypt volumes, not a default Veracrypt installation. Those are usually the types of things people want look into, you know, when their egos aren't so fragile that all they are capable of is dismissing them outright. Although I do have to say I'm not so much complaining as trying to make people aware of, potentially, a massive issue. I've read how it works, so I now get to complain? Wonderful. I've provided the steps to verify the issue, you arguing like a child is just wasting your time and mine. You can say this as many times as you wish, but at the end of the day it's meaningless. You have clearly no idea how hidden volume works. but it is all explained in veracrypt's manual.
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You can also mount with both real and decoy password to fill the decoy with decoy data and veracypt will even protects your hidden data. If they are full of random data, one can belive there are encrypted data inside, but no one can ever prove there's a hidden volume in either of them, or how many levels of hidden volumes there are.Īnd even when you unlock with decoy pass, no one can still tell whether you unlocked with "real" password or "decoy" one. So if you make many partitions, you will see all of them. Actually I use it too with veracrypt and it works as it should.
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Just because you're lost doesn't mean your compass is broken -) Tails is nothing special, just another linux distro. Hidden volume is hidden INSIDE an existing one, it is not hiden as "it does not exist at all". "I can see them both right now with my own eyes, give me the passwords for both."