TrueCrypt 6.1 Install Guide For Fedora 10
Compared to previous versions, installing TrueCrypt 6.1 on Fedora 10 was quite straightforward. Here is a quick list of steps to follow:
Continue reading ‘TrueCrypt 6.1 Install Guide For Fedora 10’ »
Posts tagged ‘truecrypt’
3 ways to keep safe your files
One of the most important advantages that Linux has over Windows is the file security, but many users do not try to keep safe his private data. In this little guide I am going to talk about three ways to do that, in two of them we encrypt the files.
Installing TrueCrypt in Fedora 9
TrueCrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/) is a popular free on-the-fly disk encryption software that can encrypt files, partitions, whole disks and even a windows installation. It is an extremely useful and important tool if you wish to keep personal and confidential data from being accessed by unauthorized people. TrueCrypt even supports plausible deniability, allowing you to hide an encrypted volume inside another volume. TrueCrypt volumes are indistinguishable from random data, so an adversary cannot prove that you have a TrueCrypt volume hidden inside a dummy encrypted volume.
Unfortunately, the TrueCrypt website only provides binaries for Ubuntu and OpenSuSE, so for those of us running other distros, the only option is to compile from source. The steps below outline the installation procedure on a Fedora 9 machine.
