Hey people, Could you give me your impressions about the use (only in Linux) of dm-crypt + LUKS instead of truecrypt? For me there is no need to use my encrypted disks with OSX or Windows, so, due the last movements of truecrypt, I am planning to move my encrypted disks from truecrypt to dm-crypt + LUKS. Did you see is as a bad decision, in terms of possible flaws in dm-crypt? Best Regards yap
Hey people,
Could you give me your impressions about the use (only in Linux) of dm-crypt + LUKS instead of truecrypt?
The developers for Tails (https://tails.boum.org/) chose LUKS for Tails 1.0.1 ~ LUKS being a version of cryptsetup, using dm-crypt on backend. This is what you are suggesting to use I guess? I'd say the Tails developers made a good choice.
For me there is no need to use my encrypted disks with OSX or Windows, so, due the last movements of truecrypt, I am planning to move my encrypted disks from truecrypt to dm-crypt + LUKS.
Did you see is as a bad decision, in terms of possible flaws in dm-crypt?
Not a bad decision at all. Here is an excellent post about some reasonable options... http://grugq.tumblr.com/post/60464139008/alternative-truecrypt-implementatio...
Best Regards
yap
I've been using it for a long time, now with the nuke option developed by
Kali Linux team for cryptsetup
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU2MjQ
El 18/06/2014 03:42, "Jose Damico"
Hey people,
Could you give me your impressions about the use (only in Linux) of dm-crypt + LUKS instead of truecrypt?
For me there is no need to use my encrypted disks with OSX or Windows, so, due the last movements of truecrypt, I am planning to move my encrypted disks from truecrypt to dm-crypt + LUKS.
Did you see is as a bad decision, in terms of possible flaws in dm-crypt?
Best Regards
yap
Dnia środa, 18 czerwca 2014 10:15:03 Jorge SoydelBierzo pisze:
I've been using it for a long time, now with the nuke option developed by Kali Linux team for cryptsetup
+1, a long-time happpy user. It's also neatly integrated into all major Linux DEs out there, so you can have an encrypted external drive or pendrive, usable across different machines. -- Pozdr rysiek
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:33:48PM -0300, Jose Damico wrote:
Could you give me your impressions about the use (only in Linux) of dm-crypt + LUKS instead of truecrypt?
For me there is no need to use my encrypted disks with OSX or Windows, so, due the last movements of truecrypt, I am planning to move my encrypted disks from truecrypt to dm-crypt + LUKS.
The design and implementation of dm-crypt + LUKS appears to be solid. The code is well maintained and your use case is well supported by distributions and other software. I haven't given it a thorough audit but at least dm-crypt has avoided many of the OMG WTF bugs and design flaws that have plagued other disk encryption systems (looking at you, ecryptfs). -andy
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