I am trying to do a Full Disk Encryption and I am very confused, I'm not very smart or good with Veracrypt, But for some reason, I only have two Encryption HASH Algorithms, them being: SHA-256 and RIPEMD-160. My OS is Windows 7 Ultimate my BiOS running on EFI Legacy Mode, and my partition table as MBR, However, I swore I've encrypted my Windows 7 PC with HASH algorithm Whirlpool before, I have read up on other algorithms, such as SHA-512 and Streebog, But I am extremely confused to why I don't have the other HASH algorithm options.
Now it's different with my other computer running Windows 10 Pro, Which my BiOS is UEFI running as GPT, where I have all 5 HASH algorithms, but can someone please explain why I only have 2 HASH algorithms as opposed to all 5 when trying to do a Full Disk Encryption.
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I am trying to do a Full Disk Encryption and I am very confused, I'm not very smart or good with Veracrypt, But for some reason, I only have two Encryption HASH Algorithms, them being: SHA-256 and RIPEMD-160. My OS is Windows 7 Ultimate my BiOS running on EFI Legacy Mode, and my partition table as MBR, However, I swore I've encrypted my Windows 7 PC with HASH algorithm Whirlpool before, I have read up on other algorithms, such as SHA-512 and Streebog, But I am extremely confused to why I don't have the other HASH algorithm options.
Now it's different with my other computer running Windows 10 Pro, Which my BiOS is UEFI running as GPT, where I have all 5 HASH algorithms, but can someone please explain why I only have 2 HASH algorithms as opposed to all 5 when trying to do a Full Disk Encryption.
I believe the limit of the size of the bootloader prevents adding additional hashes.
SHA-256 is to replace RIPEMD-160 and limitations of the 16-bit bootloader prevents using SHA-512 instead of SHA-256.
https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/features/thread/5bd9aa86/#9754