On Sat, Dec 02 2017, Antoine Jacoutot <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 10:56:26PM +0000, joshua stein wrote: >> I had a need to access a VeraCrypt/TrueCrypt encrypted volume, so I >> made a port of VeraCrypt. >> >> Our wxWidgets is too old to build the GUI stuff, but the >> command-line program and FUSE service work enough to access a volume >> from a USB disk or create a new volume stored as a file. >> >> The veracrypt utility accesses the encrypted volume/file and uses >> FUSE to present a disk that has a single large "volume" file on it, >> then vnconfig is used to mount that volume file as a loopback disk >> which by default has a FAT filesystem on it. >> >> I don't really have a need for this anymore, so I'm making this port >> available in case anyone else wants to run with it and possibly >> import it. >> >> Ideally our wxWidgets can be updated to 2.9+ so the GUI parts can be >> built and other patches removed, and then upstreamed to VeraCrypt so > > Why not start from the beginning and update wxWidgets ?
I don't think veracrypt import should be delayed because of wxWidgets. We know since years that our wxwidgets port is outdated. > We know it is outdated yet we still add patches to cope with it. Let's just > fix > the real issue and update... This will also make mpi@ happy ! An update has been posted to ports@ before the 6.2 lock: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=150478114211607&w=2 If people start working on this, please let's coordinate to avoid duplicate work. ;) -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
