Windows users benefit from a huge number of changes including several security improvements. Most changes of VeraCrypt 1.24 apply to the Windows version of the client but there are some that apply to all (Windows, Linux, Mac) and some that apply to Mac OS X or Linux exclusively.Īs far as changes for all clients are concerned, VeraCrypt 1.24 increased the maximum password length for non-system volumes to 128 bytes in UTF-8 encoding, improved the performance of XTS mode on 64-bit machines using SSE2 (about 10% faster according to the developers), and fixed the detection of certain CPU features. Tip: check out this guide on using a PIM in VeraCrypt to improve security. Linux users can check out Mike's guide on installing VeraCrypt on Linux. The installer will upgrade the current version automatically, the portable version needs to be placed in the same directory to upgrade. Windows users can download a portable version or installer to their system. VeraCrypt does not support automatic updating which means that administrators need to download the latest client version and upgrade manually. The final version unlocks the update for production environments. We reviewed a beta version of VeraCrypt 1.24 in March 2019 and highlighted the major features that were integrated in the beta version already.
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