tcplay: BSD-licensed alternative to TrueCrypt

Michel Alexandre Salim salimma at fedoraproject.org
Thu Oct 6 10:55:48 UTC 2011


Hi Eric,

On 10/06/2011 10:37 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
> There was discussion back in 2007 of TrueCrypt, and the conclusion was 
> that the license was non-free, with several major problems.
> 
> There is now a BSD-licensed alternative to TrueCrypt called tcplay, 
> which works with Linux using the device mapper:
>      https://github.com/bwalex/tc-play
> 
> I've sucessfully used it to read and write encrypted NTFS volumes 
> created with TrueCrypt on Windows 7.
> 
Splendid! I've been looking for something like this for a while. Looks
like it's time to create a new DragonFly BSD guest machine and restart
tracking what they're doing too, they have some cool stuff there.

> I have submitted a package for review:
>      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743497
> 
I've posted my review, do take a look when you have time.

Best regards,

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