truecrypt.deb

Debianization of TrueCrypt.

The goal of this project is to build a .deb of TrueCrypt 7.1a, plus a few patches that fixes minor issues. Besides those improvements, there are no attempts to change the crypto or continue development in any significant way.

For installation instructions, go to: https://launchpad.net/~stefansundin/+archive/ubuntu/truecrypt

Other projects

• https://launchpad.net/~eugenesan/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
• https://launchpad.net/~alex-p/+archive/ubuntu/notesalexp-xenial
• http://www.unchartedbackwaters.co.uk/pyblosxom/static/truecrypt_debian_packaging

Building

Vagrant

If you are familiar with Vagrant, you can simply run this to build the deb file inside a VM:

git clone https://github.com/stefansundin/truecrypt.deb.git
cd truecrypt.deb
vagrant up

Follow the instructions printed by the Vagrantfile.

Prerequisites

sudo apt-get install git build-essential devscripts debhelper pkg-config libfuse-dev nasm libgtk-3-dev libwxgtk3.2-dev libayatana-appindicator3-dev bash-completion

If you want to use wxformbuilder:

sudo apt-get install flatpak gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Then reboot and download the flatpak file here: https://github.com/wxFormBuilder/wxFormBuilder/releases

Build

mkdir truecrypt
cd truecrypt
wget https://launchpad.net/~stefansundin/+archive/ubuntu/truecrypt/+files/truecrypt_7.1a.orig.tar.gz
tar xzf truecrypt_7.1a.orig.tar.gz
cd truecrypt-7.1a-source
git clone https://github.com/stefansundin/truecrypt.deb.git debian
debuild -i -us -uc -b

PKCS header files

pkcs11.h, pkcs11f.h and pkcs11t.h were downloaded from ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pkcs/pkcs-11/v2-20/

fstab

Example /etc/fstab:

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/secrets truecrypt defaults,users,nofail,password=mightnotbeagoodidea,keyfiles=/mnt/flashdrive/keyfile 0 0

See mount.truecrypt for usage.

If you mount a device on boot using fstab, it will not show up in the TrueCrypt GUI or in truecrypt -l unless you run the program as root. If you then try to mount another device in the same slot, you will receive the error "Volume slot unavailable". To avoid this, you can use slot=10 to mount the device on a higher slot number, which will leave the common slots available.

Bash completion for Mac OS X

The bash completion script is not perfectly compatible with Mac OS X, notably the switches with an equal sign do not behave correctly and there are errors printed.

To install with Homebrew:

ln -s /Applications/TrueCrypt.app/Contents/MacOS/TrueCrypt /usr/local/bin/truecrypt
brew install bash-completion
curl -o /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/truecrypt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stefansundin/truecrypt.deb/master/truecrypt.bash-completion

Misc

• ppastats
• apt:truecrypt

Changelog

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