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TrueCrypt in Ubuntu and Fedora GNU/Linux

Category Linux, Soft | Permalink | 20. December 2007

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TrueCrypt in Ubuntu and Fedora GNU/Linux

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I’ve been using TrueCrypt to encrypt financial and personal documents in Windows for a while now and it has worked just fine for the way I want to use it. I’m doing file-based encryption where you mount a single file as a virtual volume that appears as a normal drive in Windows. I knew there was a GNU/Linux version, so it seemed like a logical choice to use for the same purposes in the free world.

TrueCrypt is free-as-in-freedom (according to my hearsay understanding of the license), but the TrueCrypt Foundation behind it is apparently kind of secretive and closed with its development processes. I’m not sure how much of a concern this should be for me.

I briefly looked at dm-crypt/cryptsetup / LUKS but shied away from them for now since they don’t appear to be as mature and also since I don’t see that they use a file-based method and I don’t want to figure out more complicated methods at the moment (more complicated in my eyes, anyway). I’m trying to get some momentum going for the overall move and that means avoiding quagmires of new learning where possible.

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