Hi Marco & all,
Marco Calamari wrote (04 Oct 2013 17:56:04 GMT) :
> rememebr how Truecrypt is widely diffused as easy crossplaform tool.
Thank you for contributing this email. I find it useful to get
such feedback.
Just so that we're on the same page (as I do realize our existing
tickets are very confusing, and sometimes even contradicting each
other):
First, before Marco's email, we had received almost zero feedback
since 0.20 announces the removal of TrueCrypt. Interesting, uh.
Nevertheless, I have to acknowledge how widely TrueCrypt is being
used, and no viable alternative to its on-disk format has showed up in
the recent years when it comes to plausible deniability +
cross-platform support, AFAIK.
Second, we have a "Replace TrueCrypt" ticket on the roadmap for Tails 2.0:
https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5373
There are various subtasks in there, that could greatly benefit from
some help. Some are quite easy (#5705) and will allow to see what kind
of effort needs to be done to be able to replace TC entirely.
Likely some of these efforts will have to be pushed upstream,
e.g. in GNOME. Probably we're not being the ones who do the
integration in udisks and in GNOME Disks, if that's what it takes.
In short: whoever wants Tails to keep compatibility with TrueCrypt,
then they're warmly welcome to help make it happen, as we probably
can't do it all by ourselves :)
If you, or anyone else wants to help, but need some guidance, please
talk to us. Even when TrueCrypt is mentionned, we don't (always) bite
*that* hard.
> OTOH licence problem IMO can be solved in some way.
Sure: I think the best way to "solve" it is to ship software that's
compabible with TC, and to stop shipping the TrueCrypt software
itself :)
Cheers,
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