Download VeraCrypt 1.16

Version 1.16 of VeraCrypt has been released. VeraCrypt is a fork of TrueCrypt, which was discontinued a while ago. This open source encryption program can encrypt entire hard drives or partitions and virtual volumes, such as a file accessed as a partition. VeraCrypt uses the original source code of TrueCrypt, but includes several security improvements. Volumes created with TrueCrypt can be opened and converted from this version. The Frenchman Mounir Idrassi has been working on this project since the summer of 2013. The changelog for this release looks like this:

Windows:

• Modify patch for CVE-2015-7358 vulnerability to solve side effects on Windows while still making it very hard to abuse drive letter handling.
• Fix failure to restore volume header from an external file in some configurations.
• Add option to disable “Evil Maid” attack detection for those encountering false positive cases (eg FLEXnet/Adobe issue).
• By default, don’t try to mount using empty password when default keyfile configured or keyfile specified in command line. Add option to restore the old behavior.
  • If mounting using empty password is needed, explicitly specify so in the command line using: /p “”