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<title>VeraCrypt - Free Open source disk encryption with strong security for the Paranoid</title>
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<meta name="description" content="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."/>
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<a href="Using%20VeraCrypt%20Without%20Administrator%20Privileges.html">Using Without Admin Rights</a>
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<h2>Using VeraCrypt Without Administrator Privileges</h2>
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<p>In Windows, a user who does not have administrator privileges <em>can</em> use VeraCrypt, but only after a system administrator installs VeraCrypt on the system. The reason for that is that VeraCrypt needs a device driver to provide transparent on-the-fly
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encryption/decryption, and users without administrator privileges cannot install/start device drivers in Windows.<br>
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After a system administrator installs VeraCrypt on the system, users without administrator privileges will be able to run VeraCrypt, mount/dismount any type of VeraCrypt volume, load/save data from/to it, and create file-hosted VeraCrypt volumes on the system.
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However, users without administrator privileges cannot encrypt/format partitions, cannot create NTFS volumes, cannot install/uninstall VeraCrypt, cannot change passwords/keyfiles for VeraCrypt partitions/devices, cannot backup/restore headers of VeraCrypt
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partitions/devices, and they cannot run VeraCrypt in ‘portable’ mode.</p>
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Warning: No matter what kind of software you use, as regards personal privacy in most cases, it is
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<em>not</em> safe to work with sensitive data under systems where you do not have administrator privileges, as the administrator can easily capture and copy your sensitive data, including passwords and keys.</td>
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