On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 14:43 +0200, intrigeri wrote: > Hi, > > [email protected] wrote (05 Oct 2013 12:12:09 GMT) : > > I made some simple tests in Debian testing to review desktop integration. > > Great, thanks! This was enough to motivate me to (procrastinate and) > create tickets for the next steps. > > > A user can open a Truecrypt container using cryptsetup in command-line > > with root privileges. I think that can be handled with sudo. Still, one > > could say it's complicated for the average user to fire up command line > > to open a Truecrypt container. That's a minus.
This is a great news! Average user that can understand giving an optional boot parameter & manage Truecrypt panel, will not have difficulties (IMO) using command line with some guide. After this, there is always space to make things better and easier, but this is a path than can be decided in a not-so-distant future. One doubt; a corrupted encrypted volume id a really bad thing; is this feature stable from this standpoint? > > Gnome Disk Utility seems not to recognize the Truecrypt volume as it > > does with say a LUKS volume. It just shows an unknown format's file with > > size equal to the Truecrypt volume, assigned at a loopback device. AFAIK, Luks volumes start with a signature, that make a volume recognizable. Truecrypt volume header have no signature, and cannot be seen in any way; it is indistiguishable from binary noise. Truecrypts devices looks as unformatted empty devices or partitions, or noise-filles files. Thanks. Marco > > Added this info to the blueprint: > https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/replace_truecrypt/ > > So, it looks like the next thing to do is: > > #6337 - Add support for TrueCrypt volumes in udisks > > I've created this ticket in our bug tracker, and requested the feature > upstream: > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70164 > > This upstream feature request has way more chance to be fulfilled if > someone proposes a patch. Any taker? -- +--------------- http://www.winstonsmith.org ---------------+ | il Progetto Winston Smith: scolleghiamo il Grande Fratello | | the Winston Smith Project: unplug the Big Brother | | Marco A. Calamari [email protected] http://www.marcoc.it | | DSS/DH: 8F3E 5BAE 906F B416 9242 1C10 8661 24A9 BFCE 822B | + PGP RSA: ED84 3839 6C4D 3FFE 389F 209E 3128 5698 ----------+
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