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scar352

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Registered: 2018-06-23

Posts: 6  

Something is badly wrong with Veracrypt in Daedalus

Hi again all,

I found a very disturbing issue with Daedalus after upgrade from Chimaera.
I use veracrypt for encrypting partitions/file containers.
After the upgrade Veracrypt volumes started to mount without the need of authentication! How is that possible?
The normal behaviour is to enter the encryption password and then authenticate with sudo password to mount the volume. Now I enter the encryption password and the volume is mounted immediately and I can read and write to it!! I am obviously not logged in as root.

What on earth is going on? What could have possibly changed to cause this? Of course, the problem might be poor implementation of Veracrypt software in Linux, but it seems to work perfectly in Debian Bookworm and it used to work perfectly in Chimaera.

This is a serious security flaw. Hopefully someone could try reproducing it and confirming the problem.

soren

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Registered: 2023-04-30

Posts: 142  

Re: Something is badly wrong with Veracrypt in Daedalus

As far as im aware veracrypt is not in any of devuan or debians package repositories?
Try using zulucrypt instead, it should mount veracrypt volumes ok.

Last edited by soren (2023-08-17 08:30:33)