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

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A: marcoc
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Assumpte: Re: [Tails-dev] Ticket #5705, desktop integration of cryptsetup TrueCrypt support
Hi Marco,

Marco Calamari wrote (07 Oct 2013 11:35:57 GMT) :
> I suspect that I'm wasting the time of list readers.


I don't think so :)

> What I said is in favour of Truecrypt to remains included, in TAILS,
> also a deprecated option, until a mature and better option [...]


It may not look like it's the case, but I do want to take such
concerns into account (and, TBH, this wasn't the case until a few
months ago).

I think that any decision on this topic has to take into account
whether someone, out there, is making this better option available,
and usable without running command lines by hand, and without running
a TC-specific GUI.

I mean: if we can reasonably believe that such a better option will be
available in the foreseeable future, then I'm personally 100% fine
with keeping TC until then. But if nobody is working on making this
happen, then every single day we keep shipping TC, more people will be
getting used to it being available, and then it becomes harder and
harder to ever drop it.

> About desktop automation, I propose nothing, but simply tell that no
> easy desktop automation can be done if you cannot say that an
> encrypted volume is there, without reliyng on dirty tricks like use
> of persistence.


I do agree.

This being said, being unable to do it automatically doesn't prevent
GNOME to allow the user to do it easily (without resorting to
cryptsetup on the command-line).

Cheers,
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