Author: intrigeri Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] An update to zuluCrypt status in debian
segfault wrote (18 May 2016 13:12:34 GMT) : > intrigeri:
>> Personally, I'd much rather see work towards having TrueCrypt volumes
>> supported in udisks2 and GNOME Disks, than adding a second GUI to
>> manage encrypted volumes: having to choose between two tools with
>> overlapping functionality seems like a recipe for bad UX, to me. > I agree and I already planned to work on TrueCrypt / VeraCrypt support
> in udisks and GNOME Disks.
Woohoo! Wait, you just let us know that you can write C, right?
Beware, we have lots of other tasks for C programmers :)
>> But of course it's a matter of "how much we really want TrueCrypt
>> volumes support in a GUI" vs. "the UX regression of adding a tool with
>> duplicated functionality". > Right. In my experience, TrueCrypt is something many users miss in
> Tails. The most obvious use case is securely sharing files via storage
> devices with non-Tails / non-Linux systems. For example users who want
> to use Tails to edit documents and share them with others who do not
> (yet) use Tails. This is possible with cryptsetup, but I would like to
> support this via a GUI, because if this is too hard to do, some users
> will instead use less secure systems for this purpose.
