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Independent TrueCrypt implementation imported into DragonFly BSD

88 points by there 15y ago

protomyth 15y ago
a little more explanation: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.dragonfly-bsd.kernel/14287 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.dragonfly-bsd.kernel/142... EDIT: from early point in development
danieldk 15y ago
Very nice work, especially given status of the TrueCrypt license, which may not be acceptable for most open source operating systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt#Licensing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt#Licensing Hopefully, this will provide a good basis for others to bring TrueCrypt support to other BSDs and Linux.
- Tharkun 15y ago
  The licence isn't the only weird thing about truecrypt, the fact that they've been known to change their binaries (as I believe was reported on HN a while back) without posting a changelog, the fact that no one knows who the devs really are etc... all somewhat suspicious for such a high profile tool. But maybe I'm too paranoid in my paranoia. I for one welcome our new overlords!
  - xorglorb 15y ago
    > the fact that they've been known to change their binaries It was shown that the change was only to the license embedded in the installer, the actual executables were unchanged. Link to the TC forum admin explaining it: http://forums.truecrypt.org/viewtopic.php?p=95255#95255 http://forums.truecrypt.org/viewtopic.php?p=95255#95255
gw 15y ago
Really exciting stuff. I kind of missed TrueCrypt when I switched to FreeBSD, because I had a lot of things saved to a TC volume on my network drive. I eventually figured out how to mimic TC volumes using FreeBSD's native geli encryption tool. If anyone is interested in how to do it: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=20382 http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=20382
Groxx 15y ago
Neat. The code's even pretty readable. Fantastic news for the OSS crowd, and multiple implementations are critical for robustness's sake - no single point of failure. /me adds to my ever-growing to-read list
16s 15y ago
Very cool! It's good to see this. Will boost and support the TrueCrypt community.

88 points by there 15y ago

a little more explanation: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.dragonfly-bsd.kernel/14287 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.dragonfly-bsd.kernel/142... EDIT: from early point in development

danieldk 15y ago

Very nice work, especially given status of the TrueCrypt license, which may not be acceptable for most open source operating systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt#Licensing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt#Licensing Hopefully, this will provide a good basis for others to bring TrueCrypt support to other BSDs and Linux.

Tharkun 15y ago
The licence isn't the only weird thing about truecrypt, the fact that they've been known to change their binaries (as I believe was reported on HN a while back) without posting a changelog, the fact that no one knows who the devs really are etc... all somewhat suspicious for such a high profile tool. But maybe I'm too paranoid in my paranoia. I for one welcome our new overlords!
- xorglorb 15y ago
  > the fact that they've been known to change their binaries It was shown that the change was only to the license embedded in the installer, the actual executables were unchanged. Link to the TC forum admin explaining it: http://forums.truecrypt.org/viewtopic.php?p=95255#95255 http://forums.truecrypt.org/viewtopic.php?p=95255#95255

gw 15y ago

Really exciting stuff. I kind of missed TrueCrypt when I switched to FreeBSD, because I had a lot of things saved to a TC volume on my network drive. I eventually figured out how to mimic TC volumes using FreeBSD's native geli encryption tool. If anyone is interested in how to do it: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=20382 http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=20382

Groxx 15y ago

Neat. The code's even pretty readable. Fantastic news for the OSS crowd, and multiple implementations are critical for robustness's sake - no single point of failure. /me adds to my ever-growing to-read list

16s 15y ago

Very cool! It's good to see this. Will boost and support the TrueCrypt community.