Other major changes on Windows include support for the ReFS file system on Windows 10 when normal volumes are created, and the use of enhanced NX pool under Windows 8 or newer for additional driver security. Use /secureDesktop yes to enable the feature. The option is available as a command line parameter as well. This is done under Settings > Preferences > Use Secure Desktop for password entry. The feature is not enabled by default, and Ver圜rypt users need to enable it before they can make use of this. It supports Secure Desktop for password entry in the new version which isolates the dialog from the rest of the desktop and other processes on the operating system. The Windows version of Ver圜rypt 1.20 has received quite a few changes of its own on top of that. Other major changes for all operating systems include the use of Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) for improved security, and the integration of a local HTML user guide instead of a PDF document. Additionally, a 64-bit optimized assembly implementation of Twofish and Camelia is included in VeraCrypt 1.20 which makes Camelia 2.5 times faster if AES-NI is supported by the processor, or 30% faster if it is not. The developers have improved the implementation for Sha-512 and Sha256 which results in a 33% speed increase on 64-bit systems. The new VeraCrypt 1.20 comes with 64-bit processor optimizations for all supported operating systems.

The software is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, and also open source. VeraCrypt is based on TrueCrypt source code, and compatible with encrypted containers and drives as a consequence. The encryption software was one of the programs that came to life after the developers of the open source encryption software TrueCryptÂ stopped development under mysterious circumstances.

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