On 01/20/2014 01:17 AM, Dan Egli wrote: > I was re-reading an issue of Maximum PC from a couple months ago and I got > to an article they gave on how to setup a protected volume using Acronis > TrueCrypt. That started me thinking of similar utilities on Linux. I know > there's eCryptFS. What other packages are you aware of that would allow one > to create an encrypted file system? And do any of them have that advanced > feature that TrueCrypt has where you can create a volume with two > passwords, and one password opens one set of files, while the other opens > another set of files? The thing I really liked and thought it was cool was > that if you did use one of the advanced volumes, there was no way to see > (short of digging heavily into the program logic as it examines the volume) > that it was actually one of those advanced volumes and therefore would have > a separate password. This seemed like such a cool feature, that I just > can't see it or something similar not being available in some Linux/Open > Source package. > > Does anyone know? I'm dying of curiosity! :)
Truecrypt is open source, and it's available on Linux. Not sure what it has to do with Acronis. But anyway, currently Truecrypt is available on Linux, OS X, and Windows from their website, truecrypt.org. eCryptFS was originally authored by one of our own plug alumni, Michael Halcrow. Just FYI. In Linux there's a system called dm-crypt which can do whole-disk encryption using a variety of means, most often (on Android in particular) using LUKS for the disk format and any number of actual crytographic algorithms. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
