[Bradford] Monday's Meeting - Truecrypt

[Brian A]

I've tried ecryptfs (N.B. e cryptfs NOT en cryptfs - easy to misread).

This is a copy of my Tomboy note on cryptkeeper. I was using the 'Ubuntu
GNOME' distro. at that time.
 [ I'm using Mint 17 Cinnamon for my main desktop now, Ubuntu GNOME 14.04
on my Laptop & media computers and Xubuntu on my EEE PC901. - all totally
irrelevant to this message ]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Cryptkeeper
2014-06-02 15:18:33.479

*sudo apt-get install cryptkeeper*
*For the Unity** panel need to also issue this command:-**gsettings set
com.canonical.Unity**.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']"*

This a GUI application. Once launched an icon will appear on the top panel.
Bring up the GUI from there.
The GUI is intuitive.
To unmount go to panel and unselect the directory required. Once done the
directory will disappear.

There is an associated directory .*EncrytedDirFileName*_encfs
Thus it can be assumed that Cryptkeeper is a GUI frontend for encfs.
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Also, this morning I was listening to a podcast and the 'Linux Unified Key
System' was mentioned. I haven't investigated this at all but it was said
that this could be used as an alternative to Truecrypt.

Brian




On 19 June 2014 10:14, Andy Coulson <coulson.andy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Morning all,
>
> Sorry I couldn't make it over on Monday.
>
> I saw you had been talking about Truecrypt.  I'd been using that to
> encrypt a folder on a USB stick that I used on several machines, and
> Truecrypt allowed me to work cross-platform with it.  I've been trying to
> find a suitable alternative - I could manage with a linux only solution.  I
> started off with Cryptkeeper <http://tom.noflag.org.uk/cryptkeeper.html> but
> haven't managed to get it working across machines, whereas truecrypt just
> worked.
>
> I was wondering whether anyone else had come up with a good solution, or
> had done this with cryptkeeper?
>
> Has anyone come across veracrypt <https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/>, which
> is a fork of and development on from truecrypt.  They mention that they are
> releasing Linux and Mac clients later this year.
>
>
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