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LUKS was a better alternative anyway (Score: 1)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-05-30 22:42 (#1ZE)

LUKS encrypted file systems have been natively supported in most Linux distros for 5+ years. These encrypted file systems can be easily created on the command line or with a GUI tool like "gnome-disks". If you, for example, insert a thumb drive formated as a LUKS, the desktop environment pops up a password dialog to automatically mount the file system for you.

TrueCrypt mainly catered to Windows users. Also, the TrueCrypt license was incompatible with both the free-software and the Open Source Initiative philosophies.

Re: LUKS was a better alternative anyway (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-05-30 23:22 (#1ZF)

TrueCrypt mainly catered to Windows users.
I would say it catered to multiplatform users just as much. With TC I could have files in containers on a NAS and still be able to use them from any machine. And while I like the OSI direction, featureset comes first.

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Time Reason Points Voter
2014-06-10 03:01 Normal 0 reziac@pipedot.org
2014-06-03 08:35 Normal 0 tdk@pipedot.org

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