I am downloading TrueCrypt for Ubuntu 64-bit. The installation is easy going.
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Installing TrueCrypt (64-bit edition)
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009Encrypting an external USB drive
Thursday, May 14th, 2009Currently, I am encrypting an external USB drive with TrueCrypt 6.2 under Ubuntu 9.04. First, the outer volume is beeing formatted:
Later, I will have to create the hidden volume. I will use the hidden volume for backup of my KeePassX database. The database has a size of about 100 KB (a traditional floppy disk has 1.44 MB) – so it is pretty small. Since the database itself is encrypted (password and keyfile are needed to decrypt it), I have very high security. In the outer volume of the external USB hard drive that I am momentarily encrypting, a backup of files from an Win XP computer will be stored. I hope that this will work. I am not totally sure because I don’t know the file format TrueCrypt is encrypting the external hard drive with. It might be possible that Win XP doesn’t recognize ext3 if it is used. I will see.
Creating a hidden TrueCrypt container
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009I just created a TrueCrypt file under Ubuntu. It was the first time that I created a hidden container within the outer container. It is a pretty complicated concept. I am using this complicated concept with the hidden container just for backup. It works.
I hope that it will be possible in a future version of TrueCrypt to encrypt the hole Ubuntu system. Under Win XP, this is already possible.
By the way, I just saw that TrueCrypt 6.2 is available. You might want to take a look into the new features.
Removing TrueCrypt 6.0a
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009At the moment, I am removing TrueCrypt 6.0a with Synaptic from my Ubuntu 8.10 machine. After that, I will download and install the current version 6.1a.
