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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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