Hi Adam: If you look carefully here:
http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads/ Pop open the listing for "Linux distribution and hardware platforms" you'll notice that the only releases available are for Intel and AMD based processors. The Cell is part of the PowerPC family of processors and not included in their list. So the bottom line is that although Truecrypt announces itself as open source it is not available currently, judging by the above listing, for the Cell and related systems. Truecrypt is one of a group of vendors which have chosen to not develop for PowerPC systems. If you refer to the discussion here: http://www.pcurtis.com/pgp.htm/ You'll notice that Truecrypt is best utilized as a kind of portable disk encryption system on USB drives. In my opinion, if you're serious about securing a portable device and/or the data stored within it then it is best to get Iron Key (http://www.ironkey.com/). You can also purchase it within Amazon.com. If a portable encrypted system doesn't really interest you then use yum to install gnupg which has been available within all incarnations of YDL including YDL 6.2. If you download the manual for gnupg you'll discover that you can encrypt files, emails, etc. Rather than repeat the capabilities of gnupg I'll share below what yum sees within the libraries available for YDL 6.2: [agu...@arakus ~]$ sudo yum info "*gnupg*" Password: Loading "installonlyn" plugin Installed Packages Name : gnupg Arch : ppc Version: 1.4.5 Release: 13.ydl.1 Size : 4.9 M Repo : installed Summary: A GNU utility for secure communication and data storage. Description: GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard) is a GNU utility for encrypting data and creating digital signatures. GnuPG has advanced key management capabilities and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard described in RFC2440. Since GnuPG doesn't use any patented algorithm, it is not compatible with any version of PGP2 (PGP2.x uses only IDEA for symmetric-key encryption, which is patented worldwide). Available Packages Name : perl-GnuPG-Interface Arch : noarch Version: 0.33 Release: 10.el5 Size : 79 k Repo : extras Summary: Perl interface to GnuPG Description: Perl interface to GnuPG. Name : perl-Mail-GnuPG Arch : noarch Version: 0.08 Release: 5.el5 Size : 15 k Repo : extras Summary: Process email with GPG Description: Use GnuPG::Interface to process or create PGP signed or encrypted email. Name : python-GnuPGInterface Arch : noarch Version: 0.3.2 Release: 2.el5 Size : 25 k Repo : extras Summary: A Python module to interface with GnuPG Description: GnuPGInterface is a Python module to interface with GnuPG. It concentrates on interacting with GnuPG via filehandles, providing access to control GnuPG via versatile and extensible means. [agu...@arakus ~]$ All the best... On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:38:33 +0200 cellulit <[email protected]> wrote: > hi everyone & welcome (my 1st post here); > > quick question. did anyone manage to install / compile truecrypt for ps3? i > can't find it in any of the recommended repositories. > any help is really appreciated. > thx. > > .adam
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