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* Documentation: Remove XHTML spec and fix errors
None of the docs follow the XHTML specification, which means
that programs that expect this (such as Gnome Web) as it is advertised
as such, will completely fail to parse it as it is incorrect syntax. So
it is removed.

* Remove .chm files
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<!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">
<!DOCTYPE html>
<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>
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no &quot;signature&quot; or ID strings. Until decrypted, they appear to consist solely of random data.</div>
<div style="text-align:left; margin-top:19px; margin-bottom:19px; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px">
Free space on each VeraCrypt volume is filled with random data when the volume is created.* The random data is generated as follows: Right before VeraCrypt volume formatting begins, a temporary encryption key and a temporary secondary key (XTS mode) are generated
by the random number generator (see the section <a href="Random%20Number%20Generator.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none.html">
by the random number generator (see the section <a href="Random%20Number%20Generator.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none">
Random Number Generator</a>). The encryption algorithm that the user selected is initialized with the temporary keys. The encryption algorithm is then used to encrypt plaintext blocks consisting of random bytes generated by the random number generator. The
encryption algorithm operates in XTS mode (see the section <a href="Hidden%20Volume.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none.html">
encryption algorithm operates in XTS mode (see the section <a href="Hidden%20Volume.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none">
Hidden Volume</a>). The resulting ciphertext blocks are used to fill (overwrite) the free space on the volume. The temporary keys are stored in RAM and are erased after formatting finishes.</div>
<p><br style="text-align:left">
VeraCrypt Volume Format Specification:</p>
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</table>
<div style="text-align:left; margin-top:19px; margin-bottom:19px; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px">
The fields located at byte #0 (salt) and #256 (master keys) contain random values generated by the random number generator (see the section
<a href="Random%20Number%20Generator.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none.html">
<a href="Random%20Number%20Generator.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none">
Random Number Generator</a>) during the volume creation process.</div>
<div style="text-align:left; margin-top:19px; margin-bottom:19px; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px">
If a VeraCrypt volume hosts a hidden volume (within its free space), the header of the hidden volume is located at byte #65536 of the host volume (the header of the host/outer volume is located at byte #0 of the host volume &ndash; see the section
<a href="Hidden%20Volume.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none.html">
<a href="Hidden%20Volume.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none">
Hidden Volume</a>). If there is no hidden volume within a VeraCrypt volume, bytes 65536&ndash;131071 of the volume (i.e., the area where the header of a hidden volume can reside) contain random data (see above for information on the method used to fill free
volume space with random data when the volume is created). The layout of the header of a hidden volume is the same as the one of a standard volume (bytes 0&ndash;65535).</div>
<div style="text-align:left; margin-top:19px; margin-bottom:19px; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px">
The maximum possible VeraCrypt volume size is 2<sup style="text-align:left; font-size:85%">63</sup> bytes (8,589,934,592 GB). However, due to security reasons (with respect to the 128-bit block size used by the
<a href="Encryption%20Algorithms.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none.html">
<a href="Encryption%20Algorithms.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none">
encryption algorithms</a>), the maximum allowed volume size is 1 PB (1,048,576 GB).</div>
<h4 style="text-align:left; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; font-weight:bold; margin-top:0px; font-size:12px; margin-bottom:1px">
Embedded Backup Headers</h4>
<div style="text-align:left; margin-top:19px; margin-bottom:19px; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px">
Each VeraCrypt volume contains an embedded backup header, located at the end of the volume (see above). The header backup is
<em style="text-align:left">not</em> a copy of the volume header because it is encrypted with a different header key derived using a different salt (see the section
<a href="Header%20Key%20Derivation.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none.html">
<a href="Header%20Key%20Derivation.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none">
Header Key Derivation, Salt, and Iteration Count</a>).</div>
<div style="text-align:left; margin-top:19px; margin-bottom:19px; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px">
When the volume password and/or PIM and/or keyfiles are changed, or when the header is restored from the embedded (or an external) header backup, both the volume header and the backup header (embedded in the volume) are re-encrypted with different header keys
(derived using newly generated salts &ndash; the salt for the volume header is different from the salt for the backup header). Each salt is generated by the VeraCrypt random number generator (see the section
<a href="Random%20Number%20Generator.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none.html">
<a href="Random%20Number%20Generator.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none">
Random Number Generator</a>).</div>
<div style="text-align:left; margin-top:19px; margin-bottom:19px; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px">
For more information about header backups, see the subsection <a href="Program%20Menu.html#tools-restore-volume-header" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none.html">
Tools &gt; Restore Volume Header</a> in the chapter <a href="Main%20Program%20Window.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none.html">
For more information about header backups, see the subsection <a href="Program%20Menu.html#tools-restore-volume-header" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none">
Tools &gt; Restore Volume Header</a> in the chapter <a href="Main%20Program%20Window.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none">
Main Program Window</a>.</div>
<div style="text-align:left; margin-top:19px; margin-bottom:19px; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px">
<a href="Standard%20Compliance.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold.html">Next Section &gt;&gt;</a></div>
<a href="Standard%20Compliance.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold">Next Section &gt;&gt;</a></div>
<hr align="left" size="1" width="189" style="text-align:left; height:0px; border-width:0px 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000">
<p><span style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; line-height:12px">* Provided that the options
<em style="text-align:left">Quick Format</em> and <em style="text-align:left">Dynamic</em> are disabled and provided that the volume does not contain a filesystem that has been encrypted in place (note that VeraCrypt does not allow the user to create a hidden
volume within such a volume).</span><br style="text-align:left">
<span style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; line-height:12px">&dagger; The encrypted areas of the volume header are encrypted in XTS mode using the primary and secondary header keys. For more information, see the section
<a href="Encryption%20Scheme.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none.html">
Encryption Scheme</a> and the section <a href="Header%20Key%20Derivation.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none.html">
<a href="Encryption%20Scheme.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none">
Encryption Scheme</a> and the section <a href="Header%20Key%20Derivation.html" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none">
Header Key Derivation, Salt, and Iteration Count</a>.</span><br style="text-align:left">
<span style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; line-height:12px">&Dagger; <em style="text-align:left">
S</em> denotes the size of the volume host (in bytes).</span><br style="text-align:left">