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Questions tagged [truecrypt]

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Prompt for password during boot with systemd service

This is relevant to Arch Linux (and perhaps other distributions using systemd). I want to mount a TrueCrypt partition at boot. With the old sysvinit, this was pretty straight forward with a script called by rc.local. I got to my current by hijacking…
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Is something wrong with VeraCrypt?

I didn't know where to ask this question, so I decided to ask it here. I think all of you know TrueCrypt, and that something weird happened to it some time ago. In the light of those events at least two TC's forks were created: VeraCrypt and…
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Is there any way to fully encrypt my hard-drive AFTER an installation of Linux Mint?

I'm askin myself, is there any software who can encrypt my whole hard drive with Linux Mint 17.3 on it AFTER the installation? Like TrueCrypt for Windows?! If not and I've to reinstall everthing is there any possibility to safe all my datas…
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How to mount a Truecrypt container with a timeout from the command line?

I'm mounting a truecrypt container via the command line (i.e. truecrypt file dir). Is there any way to have truecrypt automatically unmount the container after a given amount of inactivity in dir?
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Automatically mount encrypted home folder on login

I'm looking into encrypting my home folder with Truecrypt, and mounting it after I've logged in, which should be pretty straightforward. However, it occurred to me that it should be theoretically possible to mount it as I'm logging in, as long as my…
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How to decrypt an encrypted container via ssh without entering a passphrase while requiring some client authentication?

I log in to a server via public key authentication and then mount a container (using e.g. LUKS/dm-crypt or truecrypt). At the moment, I have to enter the container password manually. Is there a way to secure that container using e.g. the ssh agent?…
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Is it a script or is it a binary?

At the end, it looks like it's just a regular sh script: [USER@MACHINE ~/Desktop/D] head -2 truecrypt-7.1-setup-x86 #!/bin/sh CHECKSUM=163123652 but @the scripts end: [USER@MACHINE ~/Desktop/D] tail -2 truecrypt-7.1-setup-x86…
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error mounting truecrypt disk with cryptsetup

Trying to use cryptsetup to mount a drive encrypted with truecrypt. Doing this: sudo cryptsetup open --type tcrypt --readonly /dev/sdc1 encrypted_drive and then typing the passphrase gives me: Activation is not supported for 4096 sector…
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Alternatives to TrueCrypt in compliance with Fedora 15 guidelines

Due to licensing issues TrueCrypt is not included in Fedora 15 (source here). Although not address by Fedora itself there's also concerns regarding the developers identities and related issues (source here). I'm looking for possible alternatives…
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How to recover TrueCrypt datas?

I have 1GB worth of data locked up in an encrypted TrueCrypt volume and I forgot the password to it. Is there any way to recover it?
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Editing Truecrypt Hidden Volume's Outer Volume?

I just created a tor hidden (plausible deniability) volume. I used a 32GB USB flash drive, for the outer volume, and made the inner volume 20GB. Does this mean that I can safely add another ~12GB of data to the outer volume without corrupting the…
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How to mount an encrypted TrueCrypt partition always in the same point?

I just formatted my external HD and divided it in two partitions: an ext4 where important information will be, and a ntfs for "compatibility" things (i.e. movies, music, etc). I encrypted the ext4 partition with TrueCrypt but now I'm facing a…
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How can ubuntu/truecrypt be configured so users can mount volumes if-and-only-if they have proper permissions on the mount-point?

If I add the line: ALL= /usr/bin/truecrypt to the sudoers file this lets all users mount volumes at arbitrary mount-points. The problem is a user could create a truecrypt volume and then mount it at /etc/apache2 or /var/www -- directories which…
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Accessed a TrueCrypt container without TrueCrypt. What dangers await?

I've got a TrueCrypt volume. In light of the unexpected demise of TrueCrypt, I've been trying to figure out what to do (reading lots of HOWTO websites). I'd like something that is simple and can work as simply as truecrypt, but so far as I can tell,…
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TrueCrypt is destoying mdadm volume

I'm setting up a new file server using the same storage configuration as my existing server, but the procedure is failing and i cannot figure out why. my goal is to create a TrueCrypt volume on top of a RAID 10 volume. however, when i start…
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