On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Franz <169101@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That will be
dd if=/dev/urandom of=volume bs=1024 count=200000
Wow it works!! I cannot believe it was that easy. Also I was able to create a container called only test, without the .img extension to hidden the file among other files. Many thanks INK you are great!
You should know that LUKS header volume is partially open and hence its readily obvious the volume is a LUKS volume
and hence you arent hiding that much if anything. If you want to use LUKS while hiding the header, create the
volume with a detached header,info on how to do so is here: https://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/Cryptsetup140
volume with a detached header,info on how to do so is here: https://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/Cryptsetup140
Alternative to have a completely hidden volume while not using a detached header is to create a plain dm-crypt volume using cryptsetup.
And to make a 200 MB container?
That will be
dd if=/dev/urandom of=volume bs=1024 count=200000
The formula is simple,volume size = block size(bs) * count
Just start with bs =1024 and read for yourself "one kilo byte".
Then have "count=2" and then read for yourself "two kilo bytes" because now you will have bs=1024 count=2
and both amounts to 2048(two kilobytes)
From the above just start adding "zeros" to count while saying:
"twenty kilobytes"
"two hunded kilobytes"
"two megabytes"
"twenty megabytes"
"two hundred megabytes"
and stop when you have reached the desired size,get the idea? This is the thinking i usually use when creating image files using "dd" command.
Well many thanks indeed INK good night
You are welcome. If i can introduce myself to you, i am the developer of zuluCrypt. I started the project because i did not want
to use TrueCrypt simply because it didnt feel like a linux native solution and using cryptsetup from the terminal got really annoying really fast.I should also say i am not a cryptsetup developer, i just hang out here to keep track of a project i depend on.
to use TrueCrypt simply because it didnt feel like a linux native solution and using cryptsetup from the terminal got really annoying really fast.I should also say i am not a cryptsetup developer, i just hang out here to keep track of a project i depend on.
With crypsetup,you can manage 3 different volumes, TrueCrypt volumes,LUKS volumes and PLAIN volumes.Each has a pro and associated cons. I wrote a "simple" comparison btw them in an article about zuluCrypt in the may issue of pclinuxos magazine,you can read the online version of the article here: http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201405/page10.html
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