VeraCrypt - Free Open source disk encryption with strong security for the Paranoid
Description: VeraCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In case an attacker forces you to reveal the password, VeraCrypt provides plausible deniability. In contrast to file encryption, data encryption performed by VeraCrypt is real-time (on-the-fly), automatic, transparent, needs very little memory, and does not involve temporary unencrypted files.
Keywords: encryption, security

Documentation Encryption Algorithms Kuznyechik

# Kuznyechik

Kuznyechik is a 128-bit block cipher first published in 2015 and defined in the National Standard of the Russian Federation GOST R 34.12-2015 and also in RFC 7801. It supersedes the old GOST-89 block cipher although it doesn't obsolete it.

VeraCrypt uses Kuznyechik with 10 rounds and a 256-bit key operating in XTS mode (see the section Modes of Operation).

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