You can also create and open <span class="application">LUKS</span> encrypted volumes in Tails. <span class="application">LUKS</span> is the standard for disk encryption in Linux. [[See our documentation about <span class="application">LUKS</span>.|encrypted_volumes]]
To create new <span class="application">VeraCrypt</span> volumes, do so outside of Tails. See the step-by-step guides by Security-in-a-Box on [VeraCrypt for Windows](https://securityinabox.org/en/tools/veracrypt/).
To unlock a <span class="application">VeraCrypt</span> volume, you might need the following parameters, depending on the options that were selected when the volume was created:
**Keyfiles**: instead of or in addition to the passphrase, a <span class="application">VeraCrypt</span> volume can be unlocked using a particular file or set of files.