This may seem strange, but I'm wondering if anyone in the fediverse has any experience running Veracrypt containers on 3.5 inch floppy disks? If so, what was your experience?
@SetecAstronomy I haven't played around with it yet, but I thought I'd give the idea a week or so to season before tracking down a floppy drive and some floppy disks to experiment with. At least one source does say "Device-hosted VeraCrypt volumes located on floppy disks are not supported. Note: You can still create file-hosted VeraCrypt volumes on floppy disks."
SOURCE: https://www.rug.nl/research/research-data-management/downloads/c7-faq-dl/veracrypt-user-guide.pdf
My KeePassXC is only about 570kb so that *might* fit.
@sudoneuron @SetecAstronomy why should it not work on device level? A floppy is not very different from a HDD
@BollerwagenPicard @sudoneuron
I suspect it will work, but it depends on how much of the abstraction Veracrypt peels away, how close it gets to the hardware. Eventually floppy and hard disks start looking a bit different from each other. Even IDE and SATA disks are different at a low enough level.
My biggest concern would be the amount of overhead a vault needs. Is a 1-byte vault (arguably uselessly small) larger than 1.44MB?
@SetecAstronomy @sudoneuron true crypt had no problem with 💾
@BollerwagenPicard @sudoneuron My gut feeling was it would be fine. But I haven't had the spoons to test it. If it worked for Truecrypt I don't see why it wouldn't in Veracrypt. It's my understanding the latter is based on an audited version of the former.
@sudoneuron Floppy's are notoriously unreliable. Don't do it.
@sudoneuron: 3.5" 1S/SD, 3.5" 2S/SD, 3.5" 1S/DD, 3.5" 2S/DD, 3.5" 2S/HD or 3.5" 2S/ED?
@sudoneuron I'm very curious now.
Have you poked it to see how much overhead there is on a container?
Were you thinking formatted floppy or unformatted? At that small starting size it probably matters.