Hey!
I published the results of the online survey on file storage encryption
in the VeraCrypt blueprint:
https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/veracrypt#index2h2
My academic career and statistics classes were very minimal so I might
have jumped to conclusions too fast on some points :)
Please correct me!
I'm pasting here the summary of our findings which includes some good
news for the project as a whole (that's why I'm posting here and not on
tails-ux@):
- Justification of our work:
- 40% of Tails users are also VeraCrypt users, both inside and outside
Tails.
- 60% of Tails+VeraCrypt users only use VeraCrypt outside of Tails.
- VeraCrypt is of more interest to people who are not using Linux as
their primary operating system.
- VeraCrypt is still a reference when people think about encrypting
files.
- *« When I move files between Windows and Tails, I have to remove the
TrueCrypt encryption and copy the files unencrypted to another USB
stick. Then I have to securely delete the files from the USB stick
and that takes a lot of time. This is dangerous as an attacker could
access my files during the process. »*
- *« I need to be able to open TrueCrypt file containers in Tails in
order to move files securely between Tails and Windows. Right now, I
have to copy my files unencrypted between Tails and Windows and this
is quite dangerous. »*
- VeraCrypt usage:
- Most of Tails+VeraCrypt users are serious and regular users of
VeraCrypt.
- 76% of Tails+VeraCrypt users use file containers.
- 65% of Tails+VeraCrypt users use partitions.
- 65% of Tails+VeraCrypt users use hidden volumes.
- 42% of Tails+VeraCrypt users use keyfiles.
- 55% of Tails+VeraCrypt users have legacy TrueCrypt volumes.
- 85% of Tails+VeraCrypt users mostly don't use the .TC or .HC file
extension.
- Technical knowledge of Tails users:
- Tails is still quite complicated for Windows users but not *that*
hard either.
- A majority of our user base is "*basic*".
