On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 14:43 +0200, intrigeri wrote:
> 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.
This is a great news! Average user that can understand giving an
optional boot parameter & manage Truecrypt panel, will not
have difficulties (IMO) using command line with some guide.
After this, there is always space to make things better and easier,
but this is a path than can be decided in a not-so-distant
future.
One doubt; a corrupted encrypted volume id a really bad thing; is
this feature stable from this standpoint?
> > 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.
AFAIK, Luks volumes start with a signature, that make a volume
recognizable.
Truecrypt volume header have no signature, and cannot be seen in any
way; it is indistiguishable from binary noise.
Truecrypts devices looks as unformatted empty devices or partitions,
or noise-filles files.
Thanks. Marco
>
> 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?
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