<title>VeraCrypt - Free Open source disk encryption with strong security for the Paranoid</title>
<metaname="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."/>
<td>Decryption algorithm using encryption/decryption key <em>K</em></td>
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<td><em>EK()</em></td>
<td>Encryption algorithm using encryption/decryption key <em>K</em></td>
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<td><em>H()</em></td>
<td>Hash function</td>
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<td><em>i</em></td>
<td>Block index for n-bit blocks; n is context-dependent</td>
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<td><em>K</em></td>
<td>Cryptographic key</td>
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<td><em>^</em></td>
<td>Bitwise exclusive-OR operation (XOR)</td>
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<td><em>⊕</em></td>
<td>Modulo 2n addition, where n is the bit size of the left-most operand and of the resultant value (e.g., if the left operand is a 1-bit value, and the right operand is a 2-bit value, then: 1 ⊕ 0 = 1; 1 ⊕ 1 = 0; 1 ⊕ 2 = 1; 1 ⊕ 3 = 0;
