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List:       linux-crypto
Subject:    Truecrypt linux & win32 compatable encrypted volume
From:       "Greg Larson" <list001 () glarson ! org>
Date:       2005-11-06 14:34:09
Message-ID: 16758.127.0.0.1.1131287649.squirrel () lithium ! secure-dns ! net
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The good folks at http://truecrypt.org have released version 4 of
Truecrypt (encrypted volumes) which now supports Linux, via device-mapper
and a kernel module (open-source, of course). I had previously used their
version 3.1a on win2k with good results.

On my dell laptop, I run windoz and Debian Linux (sarge), and it has
always bugged me that I didn't have an encrypted volume that I could mount
from either system.

Well, now I do!! I created a truecrypt volume that I can mount from both
Linux and Windows. The volume is formatted FAT and is stored in a file on
a FAT partition. I used FAT because I don't completely trust NTFS support
on linux yet. I had to compile the Linux binaries myself, but it was not
to difficult (I already had the kernel source installed).

Cheers,
 - Greg

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