On Sun, February 8, 2015 11:03, Milan Broz wrote: > On 02/08/2015 10:45 AM, U.Mutlu wrote: >> Hi, >> the cryptsetup tool supports besides plain and luks, also loopaes and >> truecrypt. >> I now compiled truecrypt-7.1a, and it looks not bad. > > Please see the https://ciphershed.org project which tries to continue with > development. > >> I wonder why some people say truecrypt is no more secure. >> Which part or method of truecrypt is allegedly broken? Can't be fixed? > > There is no publicly known serious problem there. But there are license > and other > non-technical problems. You will get more info on devel list of project > above. AFAIK the preset for number of rounds (iterations) in key derivation is rather low with truecrypt. A good key and/or keyfile with entropy should fix that though. > >> And: is full truecrypt functionality integrated in cryptsetup tool? I >> mean the >> create-options below. > > There is full support for mapping existing containers (with some > exceptions, > see man page). > > There is intentionally no new container creation support in cryptsetup and > I am not planning to add it. > We will better invest time to improving LUKS. I agree, sooner or later we will have LUKSv2 ;-). > > You can use tcplay or older version of truecrypt for that (or ciphershed > when > released). > > Milan > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt > -Sven _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
