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

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Author: intrigeri
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To: marcoc
CC: The Tails public development discussion list
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Ticket #5705, desktop integration of cryptsetup TrueCrypt support
Hi Marco,

Marco Calamari wrote (07 Oct 2013 09:38:32 GMT) :
>> OK, but then GNOME Disks and Nautilus could have a way to "this is
>> a TC volume, please unlock it".


> Gnome disk, Nautilus and NSA, all three cannot have that.


Do you mean "none of GNOME Disks and Nautilus", or "not all of GNOME
Disks and Nautilus"?

I cannot see why GNOME Disks (or even Nautilus) could not provide
this feature. May you please clarify?

> Only possibility I see, to put some info in a persistent
> file of Gnome. But just a request telling something like.


> "In the past you mounted this partition as Truecrypt container;
> wand to do that again? If yes, gimme password"


As long as this is only stored in memory, for the duration of a Tails
session, this would be great. But I would not want to see that
available to all GNOME users around there, as it basically kills
plausible deniability. So, given we probably don't want to maintain
a delta with GNOME on this front, I doubt this is the way to go.
I'd be happy to be taught otherwise, though :)

> With no persistent properties, Nautilus may only look at all
> partitions, see those with no readable header of known type,
> and ask a possible mount for them.


I suspect this would lead to a painful user experience.

Cheers,
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