VeraCrypt 1.25.7 (for Windows 7, 8.x, 10)

[German]In December 2021, the developers of the encryption software VeraCrypt had released version 1.25.4, which was indeed upgraded for MacOSX on Apple's Silicon M1 processors. But for Windows only systems from Windows 10 were supported. This has been corrected with version 1.25.7, released on January 7, 2022, which again supports Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1.

VeraCrypt is data encryption software, specifically for full or partial encryption of hard drives and removable media. VeraCrypt first appeared in 2013 as a fork of TrueCrypt and is partially compatible with it. The following description can now be found in the release notes of VeryCrypt:

1.25.7 (January 7^th, 2022):

• All OSes:
  • Update translations.
• Windows:
  • Restore support of Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1.
    • Windows 7 support requires that either KB3033929 or KB4474419 is installed.
    • Windows Vista support requires that either KB4039648 or KB4474419 is installed.
  • MSI installation only: Fix double-clicking .hc file container inserting %1 instead of volume name in path field.
  • Advanced users: Add registry settings to control driver internal encryption queue to allow tuning performance for SSD disks and having better stability under heavy load.
    • Under registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\veracrypt:
      • VeraCryptEncryptionFragmentSize (REG_DWORD): size of encryption data fragment in KiB. Default is 256. Maximum is 2048.
      • VeraCryptEncryptionIoRequestCount (REG_DWORD): maximum number of parallel I/O requests. Default is 16. Maximum is 8192.
      • VeraCryptEncryptionItemCount (REG_DWORD): maximum number of encryption queue items processed in parallel. Default as well as maximum is half of VeraCryptEncryptionIoRequestCount.
    • The triplet (FragmentSize=512, IoRequestCount=128, ItemCount=64) is an example of parameters that enhance sequential read speed on some SSD NVMe systems.
    • Fix truncate text in installer for some languages.
• MacOSX:
  • Fix resource files inside VeraCrypt application bundle (e.g. HTML documentation, languages XML files) being world-writable. (Reported by Niall O'Reilly)

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