<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."/>
Jointly developed by Mitsubishi Electric and NTT of Japan, Camellia is a 128-bit block cipher that was first published on 2000. It has been approved for use by the ISO/IEC, the European Union's NESSIE project and the Japanese CRYPTREC project.</div>
VeraCrypt uses Camellia with 24 rounds and a 256-bit key operating in <ahref="Modes%20of%20Operation.html"style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none.html">
XTS mode</a> (see the section <ahref="Modes%20of%20Operation.html"style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none.html">