# VeraCrypt - Free Open source disk encryption with strong security for the Paranoid
VeraCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In case an attacker forces you to reveal the password, VeraCrypt provides plausible deniability. In contrast to file encryption, data encryption performed by VeraCrypt is real-time (on-the-fly), automatic, transparent, needs very little memory, and does not involve temporary unencrypted files.
Keywords: encryption, security

Documentation Technical Details Compliance with Standards and Specifications

# Compliance with Standards and Specifications

To our best knowledge, VeraCrypt complies with the following standards, specifications, and recommendations:

- ISO/IEC 10118-3:2004 [21]
- FIPS 197 [3]
- FIPS 198 [22]
- FIPS 180-2 [14]
- FIPS 140-2 (XTS-AES, SHA-256, SHA-512, HMAC) [25]
- NIST SP 800-38E [24]
- PKCS #5 v2.0 [7]
- PKCS #11 v2.20 [23]

The correctness of the implementations of the encryption algorithms can be verified using test vectors (select Tools > Test Vectors) or by examining the source code of VeraCrypt.

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