After TrueCrypt died (and yes, there have been many rumors about why), I went to LUKS and found a very nice QT front end for cryptsetup named ZuluCrypt. It allows you to create a volume (file), encrypt it, mount it, etc... Pretty nice on my workstation.
Source is at https://github.com/mhogomchungu/zuluCrypt, and the package web site is at https://mhogomchungu.github.io/zuluCrypt/. The author has packages for installing on Debian (Wheezy and Jessie) on the package main page. The author was very, very responsive when I found a bug a few years ago. I was a TrueCrypt fan for a long time, especially since it worked on Linux, Windows and OSX. However, due to the rumors and uncertainty of why the project was abandoned, and my own innate paranoia, I chose to go with "something else" even though, to my knowledge, I can not use LUKS on any other OS. Rod On 05/29/2016 06:34 PM, Robert Storey wrote: > Maybe we had this discussion before and I missed it. I did a Google > search and didn't find it. Anyway, here is my question... > > I want to create one encrypted folder on my hard drive. I don't > necessarily need heavy-duty industrial-strength encryption, but "secure" > is nice. Reliability is very important - I don't want it to break so I > wind up losing data. > > In the past I've used TrueCrypt, and I didn't have to search long to > find this page: > > https://wiki.debian.org/TrueCrypt/Install/Wheezy > > For those too lazy to click the link, it says that TrueCrypt is still > available but no longer under active development. There is a link to > some downloadable tar archives on SourceForge. From the looks of it, > there are NO dependencies, and since there is no further development > there should be no danger that TrueCrypt will get Potterized. > > It also says on that page that there newer alternatives to TrueCrypt, > ie cryptsetup/LUKS and EncFS. Both of those packages have some > dependencies, which is why I hesitate. I can easily envision a future > scenario where udev (and thus systemd) suddenly become mandatory, or > else forget being able to access your data. > > So I'm wondering, am I right to just go with TrueCrypt, or am I being > ridiculously paranoid? And what are we planning to do with Devuan. > > Again, apologies if it was already discussed. > > cheers, > Robert > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > -- Rod Rodolico Daily Data, Inc. POB 140465 Dallas TX 75214-0465 214.827.2170 http://www.dailydata.net _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng