The size of the personal vault will be 2 Gigabytes. In the example below, the encrypted volume is named personal_vault and will be created in my home directory. You will then be prompted to enter the volume path and volume size. When prompted to choose a volume type, enter 1 for normal volume Volume Type: 1) Normal 2) Hidden Selection : 1 Run the following command in the Ubuntu terminal to start creating your encrypted volume. Also, you should no longer see the encrypted volume on your desktop or listed below Devicesįigure 9: Unmount encrypted volume Console method: Create an encrypted volume To unmount the encrypted volume, make sure the appropriate slot is selected in the main Veracrypt window 2. Divide the keyfile pool KP into individual bytes G 0.Figure 7: Encrypted volume mount directory path You can now proceed to move your confidential folder to your personal vault.įigure 8: Mounted volume listed under devices Unmount the encrypted volumeġ.
#How to use veracrypt keyfile password
Note that if the password was shorter than the keyfile pool, then the password was padded with zero bytes to the length of the pool in Step 5 (hence, at this point the length of the password is always greater than or equal to the length of the keyfile pool).
For example, if the hash output size is 4 bytes, ( T 0 || T 1 || T 2 || T 3) = M
The user can use any kind of file as a VeraCrypt keyfile. VeraCrypt keyfile is a file whose content is combined with a password.