Hi,
Running x86_64 Fedora 7.
I have quite a few JPEGs of personal documents ( e.g. tax forms, insurance, bank statements, shareholdings, etc.. ) that I have scanned from my multi-purpose printer / scanner / copier. Now I want to burn these JPEGs into CD or DVD, but I would preferrably want them to be encrypted, specially in this day and age about privacy and identity theft.
Preferrably, the encypted files OR encrypted ISO image could be decrypted on any platform. No I have read that kb3 would be the perfect solution for this.
Now questions are:
1) Do I need a CD burner application that is truecrypt-aware ? I have been using k3b ( the CD / DVD burner app for KDE ) for quite a few years now.
2) Also, there does not seem to be an available RPM for truecrypt. Best thing that I can find is this: http://tredosoft.com/truecrypt_fedora_7 and install from source. Why is it not in any main repo ( fedora, livna, or freshrpms ) ... is it for legal reasons ?
Thanks.
Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote:
- Do I need a CD burner application that is truecrypt-aware ? I have
been using k3b ( the CD / DVD burner app for KDE ) for quite a few years now.
I'm not familiar with Truecrypt so take this with some salt and consider it "for what it's worth." But I would think that you could create a volume on your disk, copy files into it, then burn that to a CD using any burning software you wanted. You may need to copy the volume from the cd to your disk to open and extract files from it, depending on how Truecrypt works.
- Also, there does not seem to be an available RPM for truecrypt.
Best thing that I can find is this: http://tredosoft.com/truecrypt_fedora_7 and install from source. Why is it not in any main repo ( fedora, livna, or freshrpms ) ... is it for legal reasons ?
It's not included because it requires a kernel module for one. Unless that kernel module gets in the upstream kernel, truecrypt won't be in Fedora[1].
I think the license may also be problematic, as it does not allow for distributing modified versions. Well, it does, but only if you fork it and call it something else. (This is similar to what Debian did for Firefox, which that call by another name.)
Whether anyone wants to do so and try and get a truecrypt fork into Livna I don't know. I'd rather just use LUKS volumes. If I needed Windows compatibility, I'd look at FreeOTFE[2].
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-security-list/2007-December/msg00015.h... [2] http://www.freeotfe.org/
Todd Zullinger wrote:
Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote:
- Do I need a CD burner application that is truecrypt-aware ? I have
been using k3b ( the CD / DVD burner app for KDE ) for quite a few years now.
I'm not familiar with Truecrypt so take this with some salt and consider it "for what it's worth." But I would think that you could create a volume on your disk, copy files into it, then burn that to a CD using any burning software you wanted. You may need to copy the volume from the cd to your disk to open and extract files from it, depending on how Truecrypt works.
- Also, there does not seem to be an available RPM for truecrypt.
Best thing that I can find is this: http://tredosoft.com/truecrypt_fedora_7 and install from source. Why is it not in any main repo ( fedora, livna, or freshrpms ) ... is it for legal reasons ?
It's not included because it requires a kernel module for one. Unless that kernel module gets in the upstream kernel, truecrypt won't be in Fedora[1].
I think the license may also be problematic, as it does not allow for distributing modified versions. Well, it does, but only if you fork it and call it something else. (This is similar to what Debian did for Firefox, which that call by another name.)
Whether anyone wants to do so and try and get a truecrypt fork into Livna I don't know. I'd rather just use LUKS volumes. If I needed Windows compatibility, I'd look at FreeOTFE[2].
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-security-list/2007-December/msg00015.h... [2] http://www.freeotfe.org/
I don't know what the tredosoft.com link has to say because I don't have an account but there is a version 5.0a of truecrypt is now out. More bells and wistles and I understand that they have gotten around the kernel module issue.
I did find an rpm for FC4 some time ago. I have not looked at truecrypt recently. I do know people that use it in Ubuntu and love it.
On 21/02/2008, Jesus Jr M Salvo jesus.m.salvo@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Running x86_64 Fedora 7.
I have quite a few JPEGs of personal documents ( e.g. tax forms, insurance, bank statements, shareholdings, etc.. ) that I have scanned from my multi-purpose printer / scanner / copier. Now I want to burn these JPEGs into CD or DVD, but I would preferrably want them to be encrypted, specially in this day and age about privacy and identity theft.
Preferrably, the encypted files OR encrypted ISO image could be decrypted on any platform. No I have read that kb3 would be the perfect solution for this.
Now questions are:
- Do I need a CD burner application that is truecrypt-aware ? I have
been using k3b ( the CD / DVD burner app for KDE ) for quite a few years now.
- Also, there does not seem to be an available RPM for truecrypt.
Best thing that I can find is this: http://tredosoft.com/truecrypt_fedora_7 and install from source. Why is it not in any main repo ( fedora, livna, or freshrpms ) ... is it for legal reasons ?
Thanks.
Thanks to all those that replied. For now, I have decided to use FUSE+encFS.
Regards,
John