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Idea
#2787: Truecrypt package
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Written by a3_nm the 3 Mar 08 at 16:51.
Category: System.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Truecrypt (www.truecrypt.org) is a nice tool to create and read encrypted volumes or files. It is free software but is not available yet in the Ubuntu repositories : it would be very convenient to be able to install it with apt from the Universe repos.
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taron wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 17:24
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Yes! And please also TrueKrypt, the KDE GUI for it (I don't use it, but many people, especially those who use Truecrypt (with GUI!) on Windows would like to)
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doas777 wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 00:29
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I agree wholeheartedly, accept that some legal dude recently said that the license was a little tricky to integrate with ubuntus. you can get teh ubuntu ready .deb at truecrypt.org.
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interval wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 01:08
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Umm, ok, why not? I don't find the source distro all that painful myself, it always seems to work, but what the hell, put it in the repositories. By the by, I'm working on a gui front for truecrypt using gtkmm (that means gnome). The available one is a little simplistic.
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mattl wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 06:01
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The license is certainly a complicated one. Truecrypt should be encouraged to simplify their license.
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gweaver wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 15:36
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There is a great little gui called easycrypt for use with Truecrypt 4.3.
Unfortunately Truecrypt 5.0a sucks, with no command line support and no ext3 support.
So I am going to vote against its inclusion until the current version isn't broken...
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mortoss wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 15:49
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no ext3 support... Oh please.... it is so easy to manually format fat partition to ext3... Only a lack of command line is like a pain in neck ;)
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mishaokami wrote on the 5 Mar 08 at 14:27
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It is not clearly free software (there have been many debian discussions about the shakyness of the license) and the latest iteration clearly shows the lack of care they have for the linux version.
Whats more, given luks and its ability to work on windows truecrypt is completely unnecessary.
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a3_nm wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 20:57
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"with no command line support and no ext3 support"
Wrong. A command line option allows you to disable GUI, and my ext3 volume on FAT filesystem is mounted fine.
"Whats more, given luks and its ability to work on windows truecrypt is completely unnecessary."
I don't know much about luks, but when I started to use truecrypt it was because :
- it worked on files (no need to allocate a whole partition) ;
- the file is undistinguishable from random data (allows for plausible deniability).
I'll search for some info on luks one day, but if it supports the above features and is either built-in or easy to install on Ubuntu, I'll be happy to switch.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 00:55
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Unfortunately TrueCrypt has a custom license. :(
"TrueCrypt Public License".
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sf_007 wrote on the 31 Mar 08 at 11:35
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yes, please include it, would be nice...
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