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/).
<div class="text"> <p>A file container is a single big file inside which you can store several files encrypted, a bit like a ZIP file.</p> </div> </div>
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:
