Honestly, I prefer an SHA-256 hash. That's very easy to check, either from within Windows or using 7-zip. Windows Command Prompt: certutil -hashfile C:\path\to\software.zip SHA256 Windows PowerShell: Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 -Path C:\path\to\software.zip If you're concerned about key integrity, there are ways of doing so on a read-only server with high security.
Hi, Richard. I do not understand your comment, "Vera Crypt limits you to text passwords. They won't let you use symbols or extended ascii, little alone binary passwords. Since you have never heard the terms "text password", "Ascii Password" or, "Binary password" before let us start there." I've not only heard of these terms, but I use them with VeraCrypt every day. For example, I just now created a 100 MB VeraCrypt volume using AES-256, SHA 512 with NTFS formatting and the following extended ASCII...