Decoy Password to break the authentication header of the disk (Full Disk Encryption)
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Active
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- authentication, security
Research direction
The issue proposes a decoy password that destroys the backup header, but names no files, tests, or implementation details. Start by reading VeraCrypt’s documentation and existing system encryption and header recovery code to understand the security implications. Define the expected behavior and recovery safeguards before implementation; done would require a reviewed design and tests covering real and decoy passwords.
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Description
Desired behavior
- Thug: Imput your password, now!
- Geek: Okay okay! Hold on...
- Inputting password: realpassworx
- Shows "Booting..."
- Thug: Come on! What's taking this so long!?
- Geek: You know this is old PC right???
- Geek: (Well the real password is "realpassword" and I set "realpassworx" as decoy, which destroys the backup header & you'll need VC ISO disk to recover it, bi*ch)
Screenshots/Mockup/Designs
Additional information
Your Environment
Please tell us more about your environment
VeraCrypt version: latest
Operating system and version: Windows
System type: 64-bit
- Dominant language
- C
- Stars
- 11.7k
- Forks
- 1.4k
- Avg merge
- 1d 1h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 28
Getting set up
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First steps
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