If you design a software that takes 85 seconds to boot you are just full of crap and you don’t listen to your users at all, or, like you are doing here, you call them stupid and then say you don’t need to listen to them because they are stupid and shouldn’t use computers anyway.Īnd opensource and cross-platform VC is definitely not as good as you’re going to get. With a low PIM, as Paul says, a hacker (or attacker, or adversary, as they are called) merely needs to test at most 10 different iteration counts which means the “multiplication factor” as that point is only an average of 5.
Without a low PIM, the iteration count is extremely high, causing the long boot delay. It is pretty clear the PIM is annoying: with computers we try to automate as many steps away as we can, and having to repeat steps over and over becomes tiresome. Then you insult people to prove your point, as so many people in Linux do (The user is stupid, that’s why my program doesn’t work as well). If someone says 5 is more than 4, and you go and say that 5 is not more than 4, you are saying crap.
With a little UX love and simpler defaults VeraCrypt has the potential to offer a compelling alternative for regular folks. The VeraCrypt UI is also easier than Linux, though it has a way to go before being as easy as Windows and OS X. Now having tried the built-in encryption features of Windows, OS X, and Ubuntu Linux the VeraCrypt software does still offer a nice cross-platform solution. Hopefully VeraCryp support will be done before Secure Boot becomes widespread.
This prevents booting with whole-disk encryption on machines locked down within UEFI’s boot-loader signing. Still, the extra step and forgettable-yet-necessary element is only making it less novice friendly.Īnother long term problem is VeraCrypt’s lack of Secure Boot support. VeraCrypt’s additional Personal Iteration Multiplier certainly adds more security. Talking non-technical friends and family through even basic use of TrueCrypt volumes was challenging enough. After clocking my boot time with system encryption it took an extra 85 seconds. Steve Gibson may be ready to recommend VeraCrypt, but I don’t think it’s ready for the masses up to version 1.15 anyway. This situation makes it even less suited to non-technical users than TrueCrypt before it. Yet its extra-secure encryption of the system partition adds so many rounds booting is slowed and the extra PIM concept mandates an extra step to every startup. Now that more Truecrypt weaknesses have been revealed the open-source solution taking its place appears to be VeraCrypt.
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