6/16/2023 0 Comments Ubuntu truecrypt alternativeUNIX philosophy for the win! tc-play: TrueCrypt for dm-cryptĪ DragonflyBSD developer did a complete reimplementation of the TrueCrypt container format using the dm-crypt module to handle the crypto. It abstracts the entire encryption handling into the kernel and allows the userland programs to treat the encrypted data container as a simple block device, just like any other. This is a powerful kernel module for working with encrypted data stores. Any block device (including loopback devices) can be mapped by dm-crypt as a transparently encrypted virtual block device under /dev/mapper. The dm-crypt module provides transparent encryption as a Device Mapper layer. The Device Mapper is the Linux kernel infrastructure which enable arbitrary data stores to appear as block devices. dm-crypt: Linux Kernel Encrypted Data Storage ( NOTE: there are Windows implementations as well, but I don’t use Windows, so I don’t know anything about them). Fortunately, there are alternative implementations of the TrueCrypt format, particularly on Linux and BSD platforms. This upsets some people who are not comfortable with their encryption software being developed by unknown people. The canonical implementation of the TrueCrypt encrypted container format is developed in a secretive way by anonymous hackers.
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