Re: Truecrypt

[Curt]

On 2012-02-01, Jon Dowland  wrote:
>
> The debian installer supports encrypting your entire disk at 
> install-time.  If you have already installed, and have one big 
> filesystem left / no opportunity to change partitions / volumes around, 
> then take a look at "ecryptfs", which can be used to encrypt just your 
> $HOME.

Actually, the package name is 'ecryptfs-utils'.

I looked for 'encryptfs', didn't find anything, noticed that there was
no 'n', and, well, you get the picture.

This is isn't a criticism or anything; it's just for people who might
give up quite easily.


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Re: Truecrypt

[Jon Dowland]

On 31/01/12 16:59, Stayvoid wrote:

I want to encrypt my files automatically when I close my laptop. Is it possible?
Which directories should be encrypted? Where is stored my personal
information (GPG keys, personal data etc.)?

I'm using gNewSense (it's a Debian-based distro).


The debian installer supports encrypting your entire disk at 
install-time.  If you have already installed, and have one big 
filesystem left / no opportunity to change partitions / volumes around, 
then take a look at "ecryptfs", which can be used to encrypt just your 
$HOME.



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Re: Truecrypt

[Ashton Fagg]

On 1 February 2012 04:33, Stayvoid  wrote:
> Thanks! What could you recommend as a replacement?

Look at LUKS or dmcrypt. You can encrypt your entire machine if you
want to, or just create a separate volume to store your sensitive
stuff in. From that you can also glean that you can encrypt /home.

Truecrypt is (technically) non-free, and the whole-disk encryption
support on Linux is sub-par by comparison. If you can live with using
non-free kit, the abillity to create encrypted container volumes is
quite nice if you don't want to go down the route of having to encrypt
entire partitions.

Ashton


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Re: Truecrypt

[Stayvoid]

> TrueCrypt is non-free software, and as a gNewSense user you should know it.
Thanks! What could you recommend as a replacement?


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Re: Truecrypt

[Alexey Eromenko]

TrueCrypt is non-free software, and as a gNewSense user you should know it.

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Re: Truecrypt as A User

[Johannes Wiedersich]

floyd wrote:
>> I am using truecrypt to encrypt my partition. But I can't access my
>> encrypted partition as a user. Is is must run as a root?
>>
> 
> Go to /etc/sudoers and add to: #User privilege specifications
>   *your login name*  All=(ALL) ALL
> 
>  /etc/sudoers is a read-only file so you'll first need to change the 
> permissions.
>  A reboot may be required _ I don't precisely recallfloyd

There is a good reason, why /etc/sudoers is read-only. You should edit
it with the visudo command.

'man sudoers' and 'man visudo' give more information.

The changes suggested by floyd give you full root access. Be careful.
You have been warned...

I'd use visudo to edit the file and only add the command necessary to
mount the trucrypt volume, but of course YMMV.

I don't know how the mounting works for truecrypt. It the syntax is
similar to other mount commands, it might be possible to just add a line
to /etc/fstab with a 'user' option.

Cheers,
Johannes


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Re: Truecrypt as A User

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 02:40:14PM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote:

> I am using truecrypt to encrypt my partition. But I can't access my
> encrypted partition as a user. Is is must run as a root?

Mounting is (usually) an activity that requires root privileges. I don't
use truecrypt on linux, so someone else may have to help you with that,
but I'd recommend using a native tool like encfs with the cryptkeeper
GUI since that is designed to be mounted/unmounted by mortal users
without special root permissions or changes to /etc/fstab.

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Re: TrueCrypt install on Debian v4.3 or v5?

[Russell Gadd]

Brian McKee wrote:

On 18-Mar-08, at 12:52 PM, Russell Gadd wrote:

Alternatively is anyone using version 5 happily without suffering 
negative experience as mentioned in some places, e.g. Truecrypt 5.1 - 
How I loathe thee 
One user suggests he will return in a year's time. I don't want to 
wait that long for a usable version.



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Hi Brian,

In case you are interested I copied the text from this link below.

Russell

How I loathe thee - posted by trueg
===

Before I begin my review of Truecrypt 5.1, You should know that I am not 
new to encryption. I have been using truecrypt 4.3 first on windows and 
then on linux with good results. Everything I do on this machine is 
automatically encrypted after login. While truecrypt without a gui was 
difficult to use at first, as I learned the commands it actually became 
easier and more efficient to use. Always, I found it to be fast, 
responsive and seamless.


Today, I installed truecrypt 5.1 on an older machine, to test it out. 
The experience has been so unforgivably horrible, that I have had to 
revert to 4.3 just to accomplish the most basic of tasks. I found myself 
writing a list of everything wrong with this version so as not to forget 
something.


As a linux user, there is a lot to find attractive in version 5. For 
example, Mounted volumes appear in the side pane of Nautilus. The 
graphical user interface has been ported from windows. When selecting a 
drive to encrypt, the GUI will list the size of each partition 
preventing the horrible of mistake of typing /dev/sdb instead of 
/dev/sdc. However, if you don't want to use the GUI you will have to 
type truecrypt -t before every command. This quickly gets tiresome. If I 
wanted to launch the GUI, I wouldn't have typed $truecrypt in the 
command line, would I. This became so tiresome that I was forced to 
create a wrapper to prevent the damned little GUI windows from launching 
every time I did anything in the command line.


If you are confused about any of the new features in truecrypt, don't 
expect to go to the man pages. What once existed in truecrypt 4.3 seems 
to have been erased. The 'Help' function doesn't work either. Other 
annoyances to add to the list: 1. The icon for truecrypt that appears in 
the sytem tray, disappears the moment you close the program. 2. Double 
clicking on a drive is supposed to open a file explorer window of the 
drive. It doesn't even fail, it just sits there doing nothing. 3. 
$truecrypt -d # doesn't appear to work anymore. 4. Even in text mode, 
you will have to dismiss more questions to accomplish basic tasks. 5. I 
couldn't mount unformatted volumes from the command line. (more on this 
in a bit)


These annoyances are not the worst of it. The structure of truecrypt has 
been so fundamentally altered that I couldn't even do a relatively 
simple task: create an XFS encrypted volume on an external drive.


After creating the encrypted volume, I attempted to load it so I could 
make the XFS filesystem. ( Why truecrypt can't give me this option when 
I first created the volume is a mystery to me. only the FAT filesystem 
is available) After typing in my long password, truecrypt refused to let 
me load it because the partition had no filesystem. Of course it 
doesn't! I haven't formatted it yet! Instead of letting me mount it 
anyway I had to type in the entire password again, but this time click 
the button more options and select "do not mount." Grr.


I opened Gparted, my favorite disk formatting utility, but it seems 
truecrypt has changed the way it works. Instead of mount volumes on 
/dev/truecrypt? It now mounts them on /dev/loop? This means that 
truecrypt volumes don't show up in Gparted anymore. It also destroys all 
old scripts that I had built to work with truecrypt. "Okay", I thought, 
I'll just have to use the command line $mkfs -t xfs /dev/loop? This work 
for the first few innodes, but then stalled on 28/1100. "Stalled" is to 
weak a word, it completely FROZE the entire computer forcing me to do a 
hard reboot.


Regardless, I pressed on. I created the XFS filesystem using a different 
computer that still had the GOOD truecrypt installed. Then, I mounted 
the volume with BAD truecrypt and attempted to copy some files. It was 
60 MiB in when it completely FROZE the computer once again. I watched as 
the time remaining counter started count up. The message box was saying 
400 HOURS estimated before I had enough and did a hard reboot again. 
It's as if the entire driver has been rewritten and the result is EPIC 
FAIL. This reminds me of the problems experienced by Windows Vista users.


By this point, I had had enough. I reinstalled truecryp

Re: TrueCrypt install on Debian v4.3 or v5?

[Alex Samad]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 04:52:25PM +, Russell Gadd wrote:
> I would like to install Truecrypt on Debian Etch. According to recent  
> posts I have read (see below) there are problems with the new version 5  
> which means I would like to install version 4.3a. which I am sure will  
> do all I need. However Debian is not one of their supported distros.
>
> First problem is I can't find the source to 4.3 on their website. They  
> have a section for downloading previous versions, but the source doesn't  
> seem to be there. There is a Ubuntu deb package which appears to be a  
> compiled version.
>
> Alternatively is anyone using version 5 happily without suffering  
> negative experience as mentioned in some places, e.g. Truecrypt 5.1 -  
> How I loathe thee 
> One user suggests he will return in a year's time. I don't want to wait  
> that long for a usable version.
>
> I found a guide to installing v5 on Etch here
> http://forums.truecrypt.org/viewtopic.php?p=40855#40855
> but haven't found a guide for v4.3 (probably because my search produced  
> too many hits for me to wade through).
I have 4.3 installed, there is a link 
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/506

the truecrypt web site don't have old version of the linux package for
some reason.

There has been a few comments about 5.x, and the fact that you need a
gui interface, seems like they have made 5.1a with a non gui switch but
it also seems like the command line interface is not that good.

I am about to embark on an attempting to get 4.3a to compile against
2.6.24.

The process for installing truecrypt, with the above install is to make
a deb from the truecrypt src. The bin's need to be compiled agains the
linux source tree (not just the headers).

If you want contact me off the mailing list and I will forward the 4.3a
sources to you.  They (truecrypt) don't want people to distribute it.

Alex

>
>
> Any help  / opinions on how I should proceed would be welcome.
>
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Re: TrueCrypt install on Debian v4.3 or v5?

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On 18-Mar-08, at 12:52 PM, Russell Gadd wrote:

Alternatively is anyone using version 5 happily without suffering  
negative experience as mentioned in some places, e.g. Truecrypt 5.1  
- How I loathe thee 
One user suggests he will return in a year's time. I don't want to  
wait that long for a usable version.



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No thanks,   I'll try something else !

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Re: truecrypt 5

[Alex Samad]

Oh did not know about the licensing thing.

As for compiling, well I have run into the wxWidgets 2.8 issue

Alex


On 2008-02-07 01:43, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> Alex Samad wrote:
> > so does any one have a deb for amd64
> > and does this now mean that it can be incorporated into the normal
repo's ?
> > 
> 
> It is unlikely that truecrypt will be incorporated into the 'main' repo 
> since its license is incompatible with DFSG.
> 
> Atleast till the license issues are sorted out.
> 
> I have not tried it yet, but I suppose it should be possible to just 
> download the source and compile it?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Re: truecrypt 5

[Raj Kiran Grandhi]

Alex Samad wrote:

so does any one have a deb for amd64
and does this now mean that it can be incorporated into the normal repo's ?



It is unlikely that truecrypt will be incorporated into the 'main' repo 
since its license is incompatible with DFSG.


Atleast till the license issues are sorted out.

I have not tried it yet, but I suppose it should be possible to just 
download the source and compile it?


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