I hear many good things about Zulucrypt, which can manage TC volumes.
(and yeah, I use Tails partly for TrueCrypt also, as I have encrypted drives that are tricky to migrate to something else).
~Griffin
On December 5, 2014 9:43:27 AM EST, Jacob Appelbaum <jacob@???> wrote:
>On 12/5/14, sajolida <sajolida@???> wrote:
>> Jacob Appelbaum:
>>> On 12/4/14, intrigeri <intrigeri@???> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Except creating such volumes, every other thing has been possible,
>>>> documented and advertised to people every time they use TrueCrypt
>>>> since Tails 1.2 (or earlier, I don't remember):
>>>> https://tails.boum.org/doc/encryption_and_privacy/truecrypt/
>>>
>>> Most of your TrueCrypt users are not on the tails-dev list, I guess?
>>>
>>> I think it makes sense to remove TrueCrypt - it may also be that an
>>> announcement about how to use TrueCrypt and the replacement are also
>>> important for prominent blog entry or website update before the next
>>> major release.
>>
>> What intrigeri wanted to say is that since 1.2, when starting
>TrueCrypt,
>> people were warned that it would be removed in 1.2.1 and pointed to
>that
>> piece of documentation explaining how to open TC volume with
>cryptsetup.
>>
>
>OK. That makes sense - though I suspect that many will simply forget
>or will not have understood.
>
>> So people actively using TrueCrypt have been pointed to that doc and
>> already know how to continue using their existing volumes in 1.2.1.
>>
>> I find this more elegant than hammering the blog about the end of a
>> "feature" that that has been deprecated for years.
>>
>
>Many users that I know use Tails specifically for TrueCrypt - even if
>it is considered deprecated, it is still one of the safest, easy and
>contained ways to use TrueCrypt.
>
>We'll see from support requests what happens, I think.
>
>All the best,
>Jacob
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