<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>VeraCrypt - Free Open source disk encryption with strong security for the Paranoid</title> <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."/> <meta name="keywords" content="encryption, security"/> <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div> <a href="https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html"><img src="VeraCrypt128x128.png" alt="VeraCrypt"/></a> </div> <div id="menu"> <ul> <li><a href="Home.html">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/code/">Source Code</a></li> <li><a href="Downloads.html">Downloads</a></li> <li><a class="active" href="Documentation.html">Documentation</a></li> <li><a href="Donation.html">Donate</a></li> <li><a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/" target="_blank">Forums</a></li> </ul> </div> <div> <p> <a href="Documentation.html">Documentation</a> <img src="arrow_right.gif" alt=">>" style="margin-top: 5px"> <a href="Encryption%20Algorithms.html">Encryption Algorithms</a> <img src="arrow_right.gif" alt=">>" style="margin-top: 5px"> <a href="Kuznyechik.html">Kuznyechik</a> </p></div> <div class="wikidoc"> <h1>Kuznyechik</h1> <p>Kuznyechik is a 128-bit block cipher first published in 2015 and defined in the National Standard of the Russian Federation <a href="http://tc26.ru/en/standard/gost/GOST_R_34_12_2015_ENG.pdf">GOST R 34.12-2015</a> and also in <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7801">RFC 7801</a>. It supersedes the old GOST-89 block cipher although it doesn't obsolete it.</p> <p>VeraCrypt uses Kuznyechik with 10 rounds and a 256-bit key operating in <a href="Modes%20of%20Operation.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none.html"> XTS mode</a> (see the section <a href="Modes%20of%20Operation.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none.html"> Modes of Operation</a>).</p> <p><a href="Serpent.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold.html">Next Section >></a></p> </div><div class="ClearBoth"></div></body></html>