On January 20, 2013, Michael Torrie wrote: > Trucrypt is open source, and it's available on Linux. Not sure what it
> has to to with Acronis. But anyway, currently Trucrypt is available on > Linux, OS X, and Windows from their website, trucrypt.org. I'll have to compare that to the article. I _THINK_, off my head, the article used a program called Trucrpyt (notice the lack of an E in Tru[e]), which was written by Acronis, but I could easily be getting things mixed up in my head. I'll go back and dig through my magazines and see if I can't find that article, then compare the program name. If you know, does TrueCrypt (open source version) support the advanced volumes that represent two different sets of encrypted data, based on which password was entered? That was the feature that really struck me. I had read about that in fictional books, but figured it was author imagination. I know that some of the other things I've read about are, but I didn't realize you could have two volumes each with their own password in one file/partition/whatever. Unless (and this wasn't clear) by doing this you setup a volume that has a tiny fraction of the total size for the first password and the second password gives the remaining space. Now, maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think there's a way to have two separate sets of encrypted data using the same space on the disk, decoded differently based on password. What little I know about how encryption works says to me that doing that would not be possible. Anyone know enough to say I'm wrong? --- Dan On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> 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. */
