So they've gotta be close on an OS X version, it has apparently been in the
works for a while.
That would be cool.  Someone reported that it works fine under Parallels on
OS X, albeit
a bit painful on usability.

BTW, Horst, http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ is one of the most common
password managers,
to get back to the stated subject.

ciao,

ben


On 7/31/07, horst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:48:04 -0700
> > From: Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > horst wrote:
> >
> >> I noticed a few binaries for Suse and Ubuntu, and the source code for
> >> kernel 2.6.5 or better.
> >
> > Why does an encryption program have a kernel version dependency?  It
> > ought to need nothing more than open, close, read and write.
>
> Looking at the build.sh in the tar ball
> ...&& error "TrueCrypt requires Linux kernel 2.6.5 or later" && exit 1
>
> It looks like they build their own kernel module. They avoid standard IO
> --for security and performance (just guessing)..................Horst
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