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| author | Mounir IDRASSI <mounir.idrassi@idrix.fr> | 2019-03-03 18:44:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Mounir IDRASSI <mounir.idrassi@idrix.fr> | 2019-03-03 23:48:28 +0100 |
| commit | 8e398770544b303d22fe24fbd89034c7f62c6bf6 (patch) | |
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| parent | f6274642f056810c5bf686da9adcea985d302c30 (diff) | |
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Increment version to 1.24-Beta3. Update Release Notes.
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diff --git a/doc/html/Release Notes.html b/doc/html/Release Notes.html index c56bd1a9..1cfcfb5f 100644 --- a/doc/html/Release Notes.html +++ b/doc/html/Release Notes.html @@ -39,17 +39,34 @@ <strong>Note to users who created volumes with 1.17 version of VeraCrypt or earlier: </strong><br/> <span style="color:#ff0000;">To avoid hinting whether your volumes contain a hidden volume or not, or if you depend on plausible deniability when using hidden volumes/OS, then you must recreate both the outer and hidden volumes including system encryption and hidden OS, discarding existing volumes created prior to 1.18a version of VeraCrypt.</span></li> </p> -<p><strong style="text-align:left">1.24-Beta2 </strong>(January 31<sup>th</sup>, 2019):</p> +<p><strong style="text-align:left">1.24-Beta3 </strong>(March 3<sup>rd</sup>, 2019):</p> <ul> <li><strong>All OSs:</strong> <ul> <li>Increase password maximum length to 128 bytes in UTF-8 encoding.</li> +<ul> +<li>Add option to use legacy maximum password length (64) instead of new one for compatibility reasons.</li> +</ul> +<li>Use Hardware RNG based on CPU timing jitter "Jitterentropy" by Stephan Mueller as a good alternative to CPU RDRAND (<a href="http://www.chronox.de/jent.html" target="_blank">http://www.chronox.de/jent.html</a>)</li> <li>Speed optimization of XTS mode on 64-bit machine using SSE2 (up to 10% faster).</li> <li>Fix detection of CPU features AVX2/BMI2. Add detection of RDRAND/RDSEED CPU features. Detect Hygon CPU as AMD one.</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Windows:</strong> <ul> +<li>Implement RAM encryption for keys and passwords using ChaCha12 cipher, t1ha non-cryptographic fast hash and ChaCha20 based CSPRNG.</li> +<ul> +<li>Available only on 64-bit machines.</li> +<li>Disabled by default. Can be enabled using option in UI.</li> +<li>Less than 10% overhead on modern CPUs.</li> +</ul> +<li>Mitigate some memory attacks by making VeraCrypt applications memory inaccessible to non-admin users (based on KeePassXC implementation)</li> +<li>New security features:</li> +<ul> +<li>Erase system encryption keys from memory during shutdown/reboot to help mitigate some cold boot attacks</li> +<li>Add option when system encryption is used to erase all encryption keys from memory when a new device is connected to the system.</li> +<li>Add new driver entry point that can be called by applications to erase encryption keys from memory in case of emergency.</li> +</ul> <li>MBR Bootloader: dynamically determine boot loader memory segment instead of hardcoded values (proposed by neos6464)</li> <li>MBR Bootloader: workaround for issue affecting creation of hidden OS on some SSD drives.</li> <li>Fix issue related to Windows Update breaking VeraCrypt UEFI bootloader.</li> @@ -61,19 +78,14 @@ <li>Fix ESC on password prompt during Pre-Test not starting Windows.</li> <li>Add menu entry in Rescue Disk that enables starting original Windows loader.</li> </ul> -<li>Better support Multi-boot for EFI system encryption.</li> -<li>New security features:</li> -<ul> -<li>Erase system encryption keys from memory during shutdown/reboot to help mitigate some cold boot attacks</li> -<li>Add option when system encryption is used to erase all encryption keys from memory when a new device is connected to the system.</li> -<li>Add new driver entry point that can be called by applications to erase encryption keys from memory in case of emergency.</li> -</ul> -<li>Use CPU RDRAND or RDSEED as an additional entropy source for our random generator when available.</li> -<li>Add mount option that allows mounting a volume without attaching it to the specified drive letter.</li> +<li>Add option (disabled by default) to use CPU RDRAND or RDSEED as an additional entropy source for our random generator when available.</li> +<li>Add mount option (both UI and command line) that allows mounting a volume without attaching it to the specified drive letter.</li> <li>Update libzip to version 1.5.1</li> <li>Do not create uninstall shortcut in startmenu when installing VeraCrypt. (by Sven Strickroth)</li> <li>Enable selection of Quick Format for file containers creation. Separate Quick Format and Dynamic Volume options in the wizard UI.</li> <li>Fix editor of EFI system encryption configuration file not accepting ENTER key to add new lines.</li> +<li>Avoid simultaneous calls of favorites mounting, for example if corresponding hotkey is pressed multiple times.</li> +<li>Ensure that only one thread at a time can create a secure desktop.</li> <li>Updates and corrections to translations and documentation.</li> </ul> </li> |