[GitHub Trending] veracrypt/VeraCrypt
5.7 relevance
Score Breakdown
technical depth 7
novelty 3
actionability 6
community 9
strategic 5
personal 4
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Disk encryption tool, mature project with strong community but not novel or aligned with interests.
Summary
VeraCrypt, a fork of TrueCrypt 7.1a with security enhancements, has its source code on GitHub. Building on Windows requires a digital signature from GlobalSign for driver compatibility on 64-bit systems, while Linux and macOS builds depend on GNU Make, GCC 4.0+, YASM 1.3.0+, wxWidgets 3.0, FUSE, and PCSC-lite. The repository includes pre-built EFI boot loader binaries under LGPL, with separate source at VeraCrypt-DCS.
Author
veracrypt