Re: [Tails-dev] An update to zuluCrypt status in debian

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Author: Justin
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] An update to zuluCrypt status in debian
Hi,
I think it might not be needed only because Truecrypt isn’t being developed. However, Veracrypt support may be nice. I also personally think it would be nice to have a Luks Nuke feature like the one in Kali. Hopefully that gets ported to Debian Jesse.
Justin.

> On May 16, 2016, at 3:50 PM, intrigeri <intrigeri@???> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> .. ink .. wrote (09 May 2016 10:07:36 GMT) :
>> A few years i made a request for zuluCrypt[1] to be included in tails
>> to offer support for Plain dm-crypt,LUKS,TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt
>> encrypted volumes and zuluCrypt was considered and rejected because it
>> was not in debian[2] among other reasons.
>
>> I would like to update the info on the status of zuluCrypt in debian
>> by saying it is already in debian[3] and ubuntu[4] and the maintainer
>> intents to backport it to jessie at some point in the future.
>
>> While here,i would also like to inform of the latest[5] release of
>> zuluCrypt that offers a GUI solution for having a "hidden volume" type
>> functionality to LUKS volumes.
>
> Thanks for the update, and for the large set of references!
>
> Is anyone here excited in working on this topic?
>
> Personally, I'd much rather see work towards having TrueCrypt volumes
> supported in udisks2 and GNOME Disks, than adding a second GUI to
> manage encrypted volumes: having to choose between two tools with
> overlapping functionality seems like a recipe for bad UX, to me.
> But of course it's a matter of "how much we really want TrueCrypt
> volumes support in a GUI" vs. "the UX regression of adding a tool with
> duplicated functionality".
>
> Cheers,
> --
> intrigeri
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