The Science-Fiction series STAR TREK uses an alternate Date/Time format: STARDATE.

Marginal note: Astronomers also use the word "StarTime" (or "Sidereal Time"), but this differs totally from StarTrek startime. 1 Astronomer staryear (= sidereal year) equals 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes and 9.54 seconds.

So far there are several definitions of calculations between STARDATES and our Gregorian Dates

CertEncryptor is a Windows application that enables encrypting and decrypting files using existing digital certificates.
The encryption uses AES 256-bit and the data is encrypted following the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) standard. It allows encrypting files for an unlimited numbers of recipients, each recipient being identified by a standard X509 digital certificate (either RSA or Elliptic Curve). File decryption requires the presence of the private key associated with one of the certificates used for the encryption.
The maximum file size allowed by this tool is 100 MB per file.

EDS (Encrypted Data Store) is a virtual disk encryption software for Android which allows you to store your files in an encrypted container. VeraCrypt(R), TrueCrypt(R), LUKS, EncFs, CyberSafe(R) container types are supported. The program can operate in two modes: non-mounted and mounted.

Many of us have multiple areas of responsibility that we need to attend to. When multiple tracks of things happen at the same time, it’s easy to get overwhelmed and even miss deadlines. Since day one, Pagico has been designed to help you keep things together, so your data is organized in a similar way as your brain does.

Pagico turns tasks and lists into clear and meaningful timelines, so you can easily plan ahead and stay on track. You can also visualize the health status of your projects in a simplified and intuitive way. Use Pagico as a daily planner and file organizer. Pagico also gives you the freedom to work offline as you wish or collaborate with your teammates online via the Pagico Personal Cloud service.

“So if you’re talking about how we want to have immediate and enduring difference for the workers and families, creating jobs, securing middle-class tax cuts, lowering costs for families, and making the wealthiest pay their fair share, all the while contributing to reducing the national debt.” //

“Did I hear a laugh over there?

“Did I hear a laugh from those who added $2 trillion in tax cuts for the richest people in America, 83% of it going to the top 1%?

“This is paid for and more than paid for.” //

a new study from the prestigious Wharton School of Business destroyed Biden’s nonsensical claim that Build Back Better would not only cost “zero dollars” to America’s taxpayers but also that “zero dollars” would be added to the national debt as a result of BBB. Pelosi’s claims, then — that BBB will “contribute to reducing the national debt,” and second claim that BBB “is paid for and more than paid for” — constitute a demonstrable bald-faced lie.

Here’s a snippet from my article:

The bottom line: The study estimates the net cost of the Build Back Better bill would saddle taxpayers with an extra $2.42 trillion in debt.

The BBB plan is not paid for (as Biden and the Democrats claim); it would increase spending by $1.87 trillion, while increasing revenue by less than $1.56 trillion in the 10-year budget window.

And if all of the programs besides the clean energy credit become permanent, that would increase new spending by $3.98 trillion while revenue would only increase by $1.56 trillion.

A secure disk wipe tool based on VeraCrypt encryption engine.

Release archives are signed using PGP key with fingerprint 607E5A7AD030D38E5E5C2CA502C30AE90FAE4A6F belonging to Mounir IDRASSI and which can be found on major key servers
Features

• Securely wipe disks and partition of all types (HD, SSD, Flash, SD Card)
• Disk content is overwritten using random data generated using well-established VeraCrypt encryption engine
• Wiping full disk erases all its partitions making the disk raw

IDRIX is proud to share with the Cryptography and Security community some of its internal tools. These tools proved to be very useful in our internal development process and we are sure that they will do the same with others. Of course, they can be used freely without any license but they come with no warranty attached.

This post is just a reminder of the necessary steps in order to backup Windows 7 activation status before doing a clean re-install and then restoring it back.
They are taken from post on the following link : http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-backup-and-restore-windows-7-and-server-2008-r2-activation-status-activate-offline-on-reinstall/

1. Copy and save or backup the following activation-related files to external storage medium such as USB flash drive or portable hard disk drive: C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetWorkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareProtectionPlatform\Tokens.dat and,C:\Windows\System32\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\pkeyconfig.xrm-ms
   Note: For 64-bit (x64) OS, C:\Windows\SysWOW64\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\pkeyconfig.xrm-ms have to be backed up too.
2. Retrieve and record the product key used to install and activate the current Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
3. Reinstall Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. When installation wizard prompts for a product key for activation, leave it blank (do not enter anything).
4. In the newly installed Windows operating system, stop the Software Protection Service in Services.msc or with the following command (run in elevated command prompt): net stop sppsvc
5. Navigate to the following folder: C:\Windows\System32\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\
   Note: In 64-bit (x64) operating system, also perform the action in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\ folder.
6. Take ownership and give user full control permissions (alternatively add grant full control right click menu item) to pkeyconfig.xrm-ms file.
7. Delete the original default pkeyconfig.xrm-ms file, and replace with the backup copy.
8. Navigate to the following folder: C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetWorkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareProtectionPlatform\
9. Take ownership and give user full control permissions (alternatively add grant full control right click menu item) to tokens.dat file.
10. Delete the original default tokens.dat file, and replace with the backup copy.
11. Restart the Software Protection Service in Services.msc or with the following command (run in elevated command prompt): net start sppsvc
12. Register the product key for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 with the following command (run in elevated command prompt): slmgr.vbs -ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
    Replace xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx with the actual product key.
13. Windows will activated instantly, off-line. To check activation status, uses of of the following commands:
    slmgr.vbs -dlv
    slmgr.vbs -dli
    slmgr.vbs -ato

On December 10th 2020, Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) published the English report of a security evaluation of VeraCrypt that they ordered from the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT).
The report can be found at the following URL: https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Publikationen/Studien/VeraCrypt/veracrypt.html
I have also attached the PDF of the report to this post in case URL changes in the future.

Before the publication of this report, the SIT team responsible of the security evaluation reached out to us and we had exchanges about their findings. I shared my feedback and I also implemented changes in 1.24-Update7 based on their findings.

In my opinion, this evaluation is the most comprehensive one that have been published so far about VeraCrypt, spanning over a year and analyzing all aspects of the project and the source code. Their findings are helpful and VeraCrypt development will benefit from them.

Enigma2Illusion - 2021-05-19

I think people tend to forget that Mounir as a fulltime job, family obligations and the data center fire that impacted his livelihood and the VeraCrypt project.

I think people should consider how much time it takes to work on VeraCrypt for three OS's including the various Linux variants.

Mounir Idrassi handling the many features of VeraCrypt across three OS platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows) by performing development, testing, bug fixes and releasing software during his free personal time after working a fulltime job and family commitments for little to no monetary compensation. Just to compile and perform a release takes two days for a release of the three OSs.

Beta software is released to the VeraCrypt community with the hope that users are willing to test new upcoming versions to find issues before the next version is released since it is impossible for the developer to have test machines from the various PC makers, various Windows, Linux, Mac OS versions and various disk partitioning configurations for testing.

Hence, the developer relies on the VeraCrypt user community to help test the beta releases.

As with many Open Source projects, the developers rely on the user community to help each other with issues due to the overwhelming requests for assistance.

TL:DR
Each VeraCrypt user should consider how much work effort is involved on an Open Source project supporting three OSs and their various versions for little financial gain by performing development, testing, bug fixes and releasing software during their free time after meeting their obligations of fulltime job and family obligations. Not to mention some VeraCrypt users feeling entitled to have their support issues and/or features worked on immediately. :)