Only a week and a half left this season at Louise, (but 3 and a half still at Sunshine). Yesterday (Tuesday) was amazing, but a bit slushy in afternoon. Maybe only 800 people on the mountain mid-week with every lift ride just a ski on. Use lots of sun screen!
Good morning everyone,
A bit of a novice question here but hope you will be able to give me some insights.
Using VeraCrypt I mount an *.HC file as a drive on my computer. This drive is encrypted as it holds all my sensitive personal files. I also have a few Word documents on my computer that are encrypted, again as they contain sensitive personal info.
I have a regular schedule of backing up my computer, including these encrypted files to a RAID Array. The result of this is that there are multiple copies of the *.HC file and Word files on the RAID Array. Because each of these copies was made on a different day there is almost always changes in these files (hence of course the reason to back up daily!).
On the assumption that the individual *.HC and Word files are well encrypted in all reasonable ways, my question is:
Can the differences in the various versions of the same encrypted file be used to crack the encryption. Or to put it another way, if someone had 10+ versions of the same encrypted file, with each version having small editing differences between saving them, is there some process of subtractive differentiation that could be used to crack the file? (I hope this is clear).
EDIT to add, that a Word file would get longer as data is added but a *.HC file container would not - would this make any difference?
Sorry if this is too basic of a question but I can not find a good answer online and the way I back-up my files got me thinking of this.
Thanks :)