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Oct

2009

ScramDisk for Linux: Truly Open Source On-The-Fly-Encryption Software

Post by luthfi.emka in Encryption, Software | No comment

Many people believe TrueCrypt is open-source but actually is not because even though the source code is available, it’s development is kept secret and it isn’t considered Free Software by the FSF nor Open Source by the OSI. A truly open source application for encrypting your partitions is DiskCryptor, but this app only works on Windows.

So if you want an open source application for Linux which works great, you should try ScramDisk.

ScramDisk for Linux (SD4L) is a great OTFE alternative that also supports TrueCrypt containers. Official description:

SD4L is a suite of Linux tools and a graphical user interface (GUI) which allow the creation of, and access to ScramDisk encrypted container files. In particular, SD4L provides a Linux driver which enables mounting ScramDisk containers. ScramDisk for Linux also encrypts partitions on a hard disk or storage media such as USB sticks or floppy disks entirely as devices. Version 2.0, moreover, opens and creates TrueCrypt containers from TrueCrypt version 4.1 to 6.2.

ScramDisk for Linux features:

Access to ScramDisk containers generated on other platforms — either by another SD4L installation, or by the original Windows ScramDisk v3.01r3c version.
Creation of compatible ScramDisk containers.
Access to TrueCrypt containers generated on other platforms — either by another SD4L installation, or by the TrueCrypt software versions 4.1 to 6.2 on Windows, MacOS or Linux.
Creation of compatible TrueCrypt containers which can be opened by the TrueCrypt versions which are equal or higher than the chosen format version.
On Linux, SD4L would provide privacy for sensitive data through the use of strong encryption, which are transparently accessible via a mounted container.
SD4L includes a repair tool for damaged ScramDisk and TrueCrypt 6 containers. It is accessable by the Change button in the GUI or by sdchange.
ScramDisk containers can be reformatted to TrueCrypt containers without creating a new container and copying its contents. The created formats are that of TrueCrypt 4 or 5.
Containers can be automatically unmounted after they have been inactive for a period of time given on mounting the container. Here, inactivity means that no read or write operation has taken place on the container within this period of time.
Encrypted hard disks or containers which comprise several partitions can be opened and the partitions will be automatically mounted on mount directories created below a chosen directory.
A new container can be formatted as swap space and such a container can be used for swapping out areas of the main memory.

Download ScramDisk for Linux (SD4L) (Ubuntu .deb, Fedora .rpm and source files available).

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Oct

2009

Encrypt Files And Folders In Ubuntu Using Seahorse

Post by luthfi.emka in Encryption, Software, Ubuntu | No comment

Seahorse is a Gnome front end for GnuPG – the Gnu Privacy Guard program. It is a tool for secure communications and data storage. Data encryption and digital signature creation can easily be performed through a GUI and Key Management operations can easily be carried out through an intuitive interface.

In addition it includes an agent for storing private passphrases, as well as a GnuPG and OpenSSH key manager.

Using this small application in Ubuntu (Gnome), you can quickly secure confidential files. Here is how.

Install Seahorse:

sudo apt-get install seahorse-plugins

Then restart Nautilus: More »

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Oct

2009

TrueCrypt 6.3 Brings Support For Windows 7 And Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

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TrueCrypt 6.3 has been released yesterday.

TrueCrypt is a free software application used for real-time on-the-fly encryption, for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.

Version 6.3 brings Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard support, and also the ability to configure selected volumes as “system favourite volumes” in order to, for example, mount them before the system and application services start, or before users start logging on. More »

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Oct

2009

Keep Your Data Private With DiskCryptor [Free Disk Encryption for Windows]

Post by luthfi.emka in Encryption, Software | No comment

DiskCryptor is the only truly free disk encryption solution for Windows, provided under GNU General Public License (GPLv3), which offers encryption of all disk partitions, including the system partition. The application can encrypt hard disks, partitions, pen drives or CD / DVD, having a very low impact on performance. If you want to keep your data private, you should really try this application!

On the Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU, data encryption speed amounts to 104Mb/s per core. The maximum speed of reading the data from a single hard disk, equals to 80Mb/s, thus consequently, one can work with up to 5 different disks without the loss of performance, when using the aforementioned type of processor.

The encryption is performed on AES, Twofish, AES-Twofish, Serpent, Serpent-AES and others, so we will not be short in terms of security options. That if, in the case of CD / DVD and USB flash drives, one must bear in mind that to take them to another site and to use them, there also need to have installed DiskCryptor. More »

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Nov

2007

Membuka selubung Installer Software dengan Innounp

Post by luthfi.emka in Encryption, Software | 1 comment

Windows memang platform yang memberikan kemudahan installasi suatu perangkat lunak yang luar biasa bagi usernya. Kebanyakan installasi software hanya dilakukan dengan klik-next saja. Mungkin karena terlalu mudahnya sampai-sampai virus juga terinstall dengan cepat, heheh :)

Kita tidak akan membahas proses installasi perangkat lunak disini bung! kita akan bahas bagai mana membuka selubungnya. Selubung?, baku banget bahasanya… :) More »

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