truecrypt
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
dominik at greysector.net
Tue Sep 25 19:43:36 UTC 2007
On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 at 20:39, Luke Macken wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:55:30PM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> > Has anyone looked at truecrypt? Looks interesting. I D/L the source, but
> > it says:
> >
> > Note that Linux kernel headers, located in the 'include' directory, are
> > not sufficient for compilation of the TrueCrypt kernel module. Fields of
> > 'dm_dev' structure must be accessed by TrueCrypt but they are defined only
> > in
> > an internal kernel header 'drivers/md/dm.h'. No appropriate accessor
> > function
> > is available. The complete source code of the Linux kernel is required for
> > compilation of the kernel module.
>
> Truecrypt is awesome, but their license[0] is a bit questionable. It's a
> hybrid of a bunch of different licenses and has some interesting
> distribution clauses. IANAL, so we definitely would want to run it by
> fedora-legal-list if we hope to get truecrypt into Fedora. There has also
> been some talk about this license in the Debian community:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/06/msg00294.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/07/msg00008.html
>
> luke
>
> [0]: http://www.truecrypt.org/license.php
Here are src.rpms with tools and kmod:
http://rpm.greysector.net/livna/
Feel free to submit them to livna/rpmfusion. I don't have time to maintain
them, but I made those when I was looking for a cryptofs solution for both
Linux and Windows (and settled on LUKS instead).
Regards,
R.
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