Mastering Linux Security and Hardening

Using VeraCrypt in GUI mode

Desktop users of any of the supported operating systems can install the GUI variant of VeraCrypt. Be aware though, that you can't install both the console-mode variant and the GUI variant on the same machine, because one will overwrite the other. Here, you see the GUI version running on my CentOS 7 virtual machine:

Since the main focus of this book is sever security, I won't go into the details of the GUI version here. But, it's fairly self-explanatory, and you can view the full VeraCrypt documentation on their website.

You can get VeraCrypt from here: https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html

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