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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
Donation to VeraCrypt using bank transfer
You can support VeraCrypt development through donations using bank transfers to one of IDRIX bank accounts below, depending on the currency used.
-The supported currencies are Euro
, US Dollars
, British Pound
and Australian Dollars
.
+The supported currencies are Euro
, British Pound
and Australian Dollars
.
Please contact us if you need an official invoice for your donation.
Euro SEPA Bank Details
@@ -40,16 +40,6 @@ Address: Handelsbank, Elsenheimer Str. 41, München 80687, Germany
Reference: VeraCrypt Donation
-
US Dollars Bank Details
-
Accepted payment types are Wire, ACH and SWIFT/International Wire.
-Account Holder: IDRIX SARL
-Account number: 8310085792
-ACH Routing Number: 026073150
-Wire Routing Number: 026073008
-Address: TransferWise, 19 W 24th Street, New York, NY, 10010, United States
-Reference: VeraCrypt Donation
-
-
British Pound Bank Details
Accepted payment types are Faster Payments (FPS), BACS and CHAPS from withing the UK only.
diff --git a/doc/html/Release Notes.html b/doc/html/Release Notes.html
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+++ b/doc/html/Release Notes.html
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@
Release Notes
+
+Note to users who created volumes with 1.17 version of VeraCrypt or earlier:
+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.
+
1.24-Beta0 (December 18th, 2018):
- Windows:
@@ -54,10 +58,16 @@
- Windows:
-- Fix low severity vulnerability inherited from TrueCrypt that allowed reading 3 bytes of kernel stack memory (with a rare possibility of 25 additional bytes). Reported by Tim Harrison.
+
- Fix low severity vulnerability inherited from TrueCrypt that allowed reading 3 bytes of kernel stack memory (with a rare possibility of 25 additional bytes).
+
+- Reported by Tim Harrison.
+
- Disable quick format when creating file containers from command line. Add /quick switch to enable it in this case if needed.
-- Add /nosizecheck switch to disable checking container size against available free space during its creation. This enables to workaround a bug in Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS)
+
- Add /nosizecheck switch to disable checking container size against available free space during its creation.
+
+- This enables to workaround a bug in Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS).
+
@@ -275,11 +285,12 @@
- Support Japanese encryption standard Camellia, including for Windows system encryption (MBR & EFI).
- Support Russian encryption and hash standards Kuznyechik, Magma and Streebog, including for Windows EFI system encryption.
+
- Fix TrueCrypt vulnerability allowing detection of hidden volumes presence (reported by Ivanov Aleksey Mikhailovich, alekc96 [at] mail dot ru)
+
- 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.
- Windows:
- Support EFI Windows system encryption (limitations: no hidden os, no boot custom message)
-
- Fix TrueCrypt vulnerability allowing detection of hidden volumes presence(reported by Ivanov Aleksey Mikhailovich, alekc96 [at] mail dot ru)
- Enhanced protection against dll hijacking attacks.
- Fix boot issues on some machines by increasing required memory by 1 KiB
- Add benchmarking of hash algorithms and PRF with PIM (including for pre-boot).
- Move build system to Visual C++ 2010 for better stability.
- Workaround for AES-NI support under Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2.
- Correctly remove driver file veracrypt.sys during uninstall on Windows 64-bit.
- Implement passing smart card PIN as command line argument (/tokenpin) when explicitly mounting a volume.