Re: [Tails-dev] Ticket #5705, desktop integration of cryptse…

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Autor: intrigeri
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Assumpte: Re: [Tails-dev] Ticket #5705, desktop integration of cryptsetup TrueCrypt support
Hi,

irregulator@??? wrote (05 Oct 2013 12:12:09 GMT) :
> I made some simple tests in Debian testing to review desktop integration.


Great, thanks! This was enough to motivate me to (procrastinate and)
create tickets for the next steps.

> A user can open a Truecrypt container using cryptsetup in command-line
> with root privileges. I think that can be handled with sudo. Still, one
> could say it's complicated for the average user to fire up command line
> to open a Truecrypt container. That's a minus.


> Gnome Disk Utility seems not to recognize the Truecrypt volume as it
> does with say a LUKS volume. It just shows an unknown format's file with
> size equal to the Truecrypt volume, assigned at a loopback device.


Added this info to the blueprint:
https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/replace_truecrypt/

So, it looks like the next thing to do is:

#6337 - Add support for TrueCrypt volumes in udisks

I've created this ticket in our bug tracker, and requested the feature
upstream:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70164

This upstream feature request has way more chance to be fulfilled if
someone proposes a patch. Any taker?

Cheers,
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