installing truecrypt on armbian. Tooooo hard.. or impossible?

[harry_q]

https://evilshit.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/how-to-compile-truecrypt-from-source/

 

Failed in required package installations, especially wxWidgets.

 

Thank you in advanced for any kind hand!

[Dan25]

Why are you using an unmaintained crypto library? Talk about a bad idea, even its own authors have stated people should not use truecrypt!

 

Have you considered just using cryptsetup, its battle tested, well maintained, and has a secure chain of trust & update path through your distro of choice, unlike truecrypt.

[nedoskiv]

Why are you using an unmaintained crypto library? Talk about a bad idea, even its own authors have stated people should not use truecrypt!

 

Have you considered just using cryptsetup, its battle tested, well maintained, and has a secure chain of trust & update path through your distro of choice, unlike truecrypt.

 

good info, thank you

[harry_q]

Why are you using an unmaintained crypto library? Talk about a bad idea, even its own authors have stated people should not use truecrypt!

 

Have you considered just using cryptsetup, its battle tested, well maintained, and has a secure chain of trust & update path through your distro of choice, unlike truecrypt.

Terrific! cryptsetup can access truecrypted file or device!

 

My solution:

 

$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/HDD333

$ sudo cryptsetup --type tcrypt open /media/HDD333/encHDD333.tc truecrypt1

$ sudo mkdir /media/truecrypt1

$ sudo mount -o uid=1000 /dev/mapper/truecrypt1 /media/truecrypt1

$ cd /media/truecrypt1/

 

DONE!

 

Detailed info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TrueCrypt#Accessing_a_TrueCrypt_container_using_cryptsetup

 

FYI, cjk language filename displaying problem solution: http://askubuntu.com/questions/162391/how-do-i-fix-my-locale-issue

 

* cjk: chinese japanese korean

 

Thank you so much, Dan25! New World to me~! ^^

Edited November 22, 2016 by harry_q