Comments on: TrueCrypt 5: Encrypt your drive in GUI

By: hstec

hstec — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:55:28 +0000

Nice comparison.
I made performance comparison (under VMware) truecrypt vs compusec:
http://sites.google.com/site/hstecproj/pub/crypt-test

By: dave

dave — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:28:27 +0000

I installed it on ubuntu 7.10 from the ubuntu deb on the site, the only filesystem choice was FAT … how does one get to use ext3?

The new GUI and wizard makes it _much_ easier than 4.3a which I tried previously and is very similar to using encrypted volumes in osx.

Thanks for the article, very clear.

You could include a bit on using keyfiles (http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/keyfiles.php) I found that quite interesting.
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to use ext create the volume with no filesystem
start your terminal and type truecrypt
select the volume to mount
click mount
you should see Options >
click this and check do not mount
now you will see your encrypted volume mounted into one of the slots
right click on the volume you wish to create a partition on and click Properties you will see Virtual Device :/path/to/it or eg /dev/mapper/truecrypt1

now make the filesystem

for ext2 mkfs.ext2 /path/to/it eg /dev/mapper/truecrypt1
root privileges may be required so in that case sudo mkfs.ext2……
also you may have do do a chmod of the drive as root
mail me if u need help

By: Lance

Lance — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:31:35 +0000

Having the same hanging issues mentioned above when copying large files (though I only have one encrypted partition so it hangs copying to and from a single encrypted partition).

I have a dual quad core system with 8 gigs of RAM running Vista Ultimate SP1. So speed isn’t an issue and the hanging is only for anything new that wants to access drives, previously running programs seem fine.

I too can’t afford instability (specially one that happens every single time), so going to uninstall it.

By: I_AM

I_AM — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:13:30 +0000

I have used TC in Windows, than used it in OpenSUSE with command line.
I’ve installed new one on my Ubuntu… what can i say… GUI - sucks. It has more time to mount partition clicking all that buttons. While i did truecrypt -i and typed password and path…
And the biggest drawback is that it just hangs all my system if i am copying big files from one encrypted partition to another. Anyway that is some (documented) problem with large files copying. I can’t afford instability while working with valuable data… so I am moving to dm-crypt!

By: michuk

michuk — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:27:11 +0000

We published an article on cryptsetup a while ago, as well: Encrypted home partition in Linux with DM_Crypt. Indeed this is a good option if you don’t need Windows compatibility and demand performance.

By: John

John — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:12:19 +0000

If you want full partition encryption on Linux from boot, I’d recommend cryptsetup with the luks extensions. Like McPop said, TC just seems a bit clumsy in comparison, though a lot easier to set up. Cryptsetup can take care of the /tmp and swap issues too.

Here’s a post of how I did my laptop with cryptsetup, http://www.velvetcache.org/2008/01/25/linux-encrypted-laptop/. There are some benchmarks at http://www.fsckin.com/2008/01/15/howto-setup-and-benchmark-encrypted-partitions-in-ubuntu/.

Thanks for showing off the new features!

By: foo

foo — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:44:02 +0000

after playing with keyfiles … they dont seem to work in my version, even when i specify one in creating a volume if you try to open that volume with a keyfile it doesnt work …

By: foo

foo — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:17:08 +0000

I installed it on ubuntu 7.10 from the ubuntu deb on the site, the only filesystem choice was FAT … how does one get to use ext3?

The new GUI and wizard makes it _much_ easier than 4.3a which I tried previously and is very similar to using encrypted volumes in osx.

Thanks for the article, very clear.

You could include a bit on using keyfiles (http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/keyfiles.php) I found that quite interesting.