On January 20, 2014, Michael Torrie wrote: > Truecrypt is open source, and it's available on Linux. Not sure what it
> has to do with Acronis. That was my bad. I went back and looked at that issue, and they didn't mention Acronis in it at all. I apparently merged two articles in my mind. They are using the TrueCrypt that you get from truecrypt.org, so that's cool. Ignore my confusions. :> I appreciate the info though! --- Dan On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
