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> They're your most realistic option right now. zuluCrypt[1] is another option if you are on linux. Its GPL licensed and exists in a lot of distribution's rep
by mhogomchungu 11y ago
> They're your most realistic option right now.
zuluCrypt[1] is another option if you are on linux.
Its GPL licensed and exists in a lot of distribution's repositories(Will appear in debian and ubuntu repositories shortly)
It supports TrueCrypt volumes,VeraCrypt volumes and LUKS volumes.
[1] http://mhogomchungu.github.io/zuluCrypt/ http://mhogomchungu.github.io/zuluCrypt/
- vog 11y agoUnder Linux, what is the advantage of TrueCrypt/zuluCrypt over plain old LUKS? (which is automatically set up on any modern Linux Distro installation)
- Sir_Cmpwn 11y agoThere is no advantage. Choosing TrueCraft is a choice to use software with more questionable origins.
- bitL 11y agoPlausible deniability? With LUKS everyone can see your volume is encrypted; to avoid that you'd have to use plain dm-crypt/cryptsetup, randomize your drives (time consuming) and manage keys yourself (too much work).
- fluidcruft 11y agoAnyone can be pretty sure that your drive is encrypted rather than full of entropy, anyway.
- bitL 11y agoImagine somebody decided to use $5 wrench method on you right after you randomized your RAID ;-)
- mhogomchungu 11y agoLUKS is an on-disk format where as TrueCrypt is both an on-disk format and an application.zuluCrypt is only an application that supports multiple on-disk formats so your question is not easy to answer since it mixes up different things. LUKS advantages over TrueCrypt is that it can support up to 8 different passwords and each password security can be fine tuned by a changeable pbkdf2 iteration count that is set per password. TrueCrypt on-disk format advantages over LUKS is that it can support two volumes(outer one and hidden one) and its header is completely hidden since its encrypted.LUKS volume header is unencrypted and hence visible. With a LUKS based encrypted volume,its possible to mimic a hidden header on a device through the usage of a "detached header" but this is a property of tools that manage LUKS volumes and not of a LUKS volume on disk-format.It is also possible to mimic a hidden volume through a plain dm-crypt volume at a non zero offset but this is also a property of a tool that manages LUKS volume and not of a LUKS volume format. When it comes to binary applications,zuluCrypt is better than TrueCrypt because it supports TrueCrypt on-disk format together with other formats and it also supports multiple hidden volumes through the use of plain dm-crypt volumes. zuluCrypt also supports LUKS volumes with a detached header and this is more or less like TrueCrypt volume that requires a password and a keyfile(the detached header will act as a keyfile in this case). zuluCrypt also supports plain dm-crypt volumes at a none zero offset and this means it can have more than one "hidden volumes" although it does not offer protection of these hidden volumes.
- jmnicolas 11y ago"TrueCrypt [...] is that it can support two volumes(outer one and hidden one)" afaik you can have as many hidden volumes you like on Truecrypt provided you have enough space.
- mhogomchungu 11y agoTrueCrypt's on-disk format specification is here[1] and it specifies only one hidden volume. Look for documentation of header backups and you will see it speaks of only two headers,the header for the outer volume and the header for the hidden volume. [1] https://www.truecrypt71a.com/documentation/technical-details/truecrypt-volume-format-specification/ https://www.truecrypt71a.com/documentation/technical-details...