I don't trust VeraCrypt very much. Mounir Idrassi's company <i>IDRIX</i> was founded in 2006 in Paris and it is one of the classical shady government-near companies that could have close ties to intelligence agencies. Note that I say <i>could</i> not <i>has</i>.<p>You cannot find any extensive CV of Idrassi online and he played no noteworthy role in international cryptography, neither as a professional nor as an enthusiast, before he forked TrueCrypt into VeraCrypt. Moreover, France has a long anti-cryptography tradition and a fairly extensive and powerful intelligence apparatus.<p>My apologies to Idrassi for casting doubt on him, but that's how trust works. It's a personal evaluation. From the publicly available information there are enough reasons for me to consider the sudden cessation of TrueCrypt development and the fast takeover by VeraCrypt suspicious.<p>Sure, you can compile it on your own but if you don't do that, do you also audit and reverse-engineer the binaries?
If you're not afraid of using the command line, dm-crypt is a much better alternative: <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_...</a><p>(Needless to say, the Arch wiki is an excellent resource for those getting started with Linux.)