, This post remains for archive purposes.I have always been security conscious, in todays world privacy & security is a thing of the past unless we take matters into our own hands. I have used many types of encryption applications, dm-crypt, luks, cryptsetup, encfs, and truecrypt. personally I like truecrypt more than all the others simply because you can hide encrypted files in encrypted files. This is a form of steganography and is a better deterrant to law enforcement than full disk encryption, with that judges and juries seem to think you are indeed hiding something and you should be punished. I found this powefull little applet for gnome that complements truecrypt very nicely. I can simply right click & and create & mount truecrypt volumes.
This is all you do:
wget http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads/truecrypt-4.3a-ubuntu-7.04-x86.tar.gz
wget http://bockcay.de/stuff/programs/forcefield/forcefield_current_all.deb
sudo apt-get install python-crack python-pexpect cracklib2
tar xfz truecrypt-4.3a-ubuntu-7.04-x86.tar.gz
sudo dpkg -i truecrypt-4.3a/truecrypt_4.3a-0_i386.deb
rm -rf truecrypt-4.3a truecrypt-4.3a-ubuntu-7.04-x86.tar.gz
sudo dpkg -i forcefield_current_all.deb
seems a bit incomplete - care to add a full session w/ example?
ReplyDeletecheers
Are those "volumes" virtual drives? or this run on a pendrive or another drives?
ReplyDeleteyou can encrypt full drives or virtual volumes as hidden files like hide it as a divx movie .avi for instance, a pendrive would work great as well
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately truecrypt needs glibc2.4 which is beyond the current version for Ubuntu 6.10. Shame. I'd like to use it but I don't want to screw up Ubuntu that much; nor can I upgrade yet.
ReplyDeleteouch, I hope you can upgrade soon, and backup your needed files, i'll look around to see if we can hack it to work
ReplyDeleteI have Truecrypt running fine from source on Ubuntu 6.06 so I am sure you can get it running fine on 6.10. This is the latest 4.3a Truecrypt. I just followed the instructions for compiling on Gutsy on the forums and it worked fine on Dapper (6.06). The debs on their site wouldn't work for me because I had update the kernel.
ReplyDeleteMy system just stopped loading Forcefield... click the icon... it says loading and he just goes away.
ReplyDeleteI launched it from a terminal and it has a bunch of tracebacks starting with:
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/forcefield/texpect.py:6: RuntimeWarning: Python C API version mismatch for module zero_out: This Python has API version 1013, module zero_out has version 1012.
Sounds like some sort of a module mismatch thingy, but what the heck!! I thought I couldn't get to my data anymore, it just turns out I can't use the interface. I can still call truecrypt directly and mount my volume... whew!!!