If you’re looking for free open-source disk encryption software, TrueCrypt is worth trying out. TrueCrypt supports Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X platform. With TrueCrypt, you can encrypt an entire hard disk partition. In addition, you can also create a virtual encrypted disk and mount it.
Installing TrueCrypt 5.0 on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
The latest version of TrueCrypt is 5.0. You can download the deb package for Ubuntu from here.
Now we extract the tarball file with the following command:
tar zxvf truecrypt-5.0-ubuntu-x86.tar.gz
Then go to truecrypt-5.0 folder:
cd truecrypt-5.0/
Install it:
sudo dpkg -i truecrypt_5.0-0_i386.deb
To run TrueCrypt, type “truecrypt” in your terminal and hit Enter key.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Mike // Feb 8, 2008 at 5:37 am
Too bad there are no 64-bit debs easily available.
It also doesn’t compile correctly on 64-bit without some major hackery, and removes support for hidden volumes.
Too bad. Could have been good.
2 da panischa // Feb 16, 2008 at 2:34 pm
for 64 bit users…
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4326164
3 malcarada // Mar 10, 2008 at 7:59 am
Truecrypt does not have full disk encryption for Linux only Windows computers can apply for that. Quite pathetic for an opensource applet, the windows version is better than the Linux.
4 PDXNET96 // Apr 30, 2008 at 9:09 am
Yes, thats pretty weird..
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