Truecrypt?

[quadomatic]

I figure the motivations for encryption on Pandora would be the same as on a Laptop or any other mobile device.

I'm curious if Truecrypt is available, and even if it is, would performance be any good?

 

[Prometheus]

There's a PND available for testing in the Beta Testing forum, if that's of any help.

 

[Aninhumer]

Not sure if a PND is a good idea for that sort of thing?

 

[Lobo]

Why not? I use it and it works great.
Truecrypt doesn't store anything in your appsdata directory that could compromise your encrypted archive.

 

[Aninhumer]

Why not? I use it and it works great.
Truecrypt doesn't store anything in your appsdata directory that could compromise your encrypted archive.

I meant because it's more of an OS feature than an application.
If it's a PND you have to include it on every SD that has a truecrypt partition.

 

[WizardStan]

If it's a PND you have to include it on every SD that has a truecrypt partition.

Sounds like a pretty good feature, to me. If you want it to be always available, put the PND on the NAND.

 

[rick0815]

Isn't dm-crypt our on NAND cryptography OS feature?

 

[GuSec]

Isn't dm-crypt our on NAND cryptography OS feature?

I'm wondering the exact same thing. Isn't cryptsetup avaible? :huh:

 

[fearofshorts]

Yeah, well... you can never have too many open-source alternatives.

Plus TrueCrypt's unnecessary GUI gives it a better air of security when I show off to my friends: if it needs to have that many options, it's GOT to be good XD

 

[lulzfish]

Yeah, well... you can never have too many open-source alternatives.

Plus TrueCrypt's unnecessary GUI gives it a better air of security when I show off to my friends: if it needs to have that many options, it's GOT to be good XD

The fact is, I can never remember what dm-crypt is called or how to use it.
Maybe I should make a Qt GUI wrapper for it, since Truecrypt's GUI is a little awkward, and they're only "mostly open-source"

 

[Lobo]

Also remember that Truecrypt exists for other OS, most especially Windows, and I'm sure that many people (like me) dont use Linux on their desktop PCs.

I can readily access the same encrypted volume from the pandora as I can from my windows pc with Truecrypt.

 

[Hakurou]

FreeOTFE is open source, cross platform and rather similar to Truecrypt with the added functionality of accessing dm-crypt encrypted drives. So this might be a viable alternative to Truecrypt if it is easily portable to the Pandora.

http://www.freeotfe.org/