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On Sat, 1/24/2026 6:39 PM, CrudeSausage wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:56:25 -0000, Bill Brownley wrote:
>
>> Alan K. wrote:
>>
>>> And ....
>>> Is there a substitute for Bitlocker? What if I don't want to use it,
>>> but still want encryption?
>>
>> Yes, lots.
>>
>>
>>
>> [Removed 张文尉's crosspost to alt.conspiracy]
>
> It seems that just about every solution there would be safer than
> Microsoft's, but I imagine that VeraCrypt remains the most popular
> alternative. Does VeraCrypt work if you intend to use a storage device's
> OPAL hardware encryption?
>
There is no mention of that topic here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeraCrypt
You will find in the software world, a general distrust of "punting"
to someone elses implementation :-) "What would Linux Torvalds say?" :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_Storage_Specification
"Radboud University researchers indicated in November 2018 that some
hardware-encrypted SSDs, including some Opal implementations,
had security vulnerabilities.[5]
[5] Meijer, Carlo; van Gastel, Bernard (19–23 May 2019).
Self-Encrypting Deception: Weaknesses in the Encryption of
Solid State Drives. 2019 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP).
San Francisco, CA, USA: IEEE. pp. 72–87.
"
The advantage of software based methods, is that, as they are
cracked, you can just toss them out of the crypto-suite. There
is fast turnaround for correcting a situation.
Just as right now, SHA-512 is being popularized, as quantum computer chill
appears on the horizon. Like MD5, the warnings appear ahead of the actual
attack. And while you sit there sipping a coffee, there are people
beavering away on hardened algorithms to withstand quantum attack.
Paul
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