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Simplified Disk Encryption Coming to GNOME

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the keep-it-secret-keep-it-safe dept.

An anonymous reader writes "David Zeuthen of Red Hat has been working on adding encrypted volume support to HAL. The result is an infrastructure that is being developed to make working with encrypted volumes easier. David has published a screenshot documenting his work on his blog. The bottom line: attach a properly encrypted volume and the system will prompt you for a password and automatically mount it."

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  1. Re:TrueCrypt by zhiwenchong · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mac OS X's DMG disk image format has had similar functionality (AES-128) for a long time too, but admittedly it is not cross-platform and open-source like TrueCrypt is.

  2. Re:Wrong level of the Stack by JanneM · · Score: 4, Informative

    HAL is not part of a desktop (not really sure why Gnome is mentioned here, other that that the initial user tools for this is Gnome based). It's a Hardware Abstraction Layer around the kernel to support stuff like hotplugging, file monitoring and so on in a nice, hardware-independent manner. It sounds like just about the right level to me. Isn't HAL used in most recent distros by now, no matter what desktop (if any)?

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  3. Re:Already in debian by Omega+Hacker · · Score: 4, Informative

    Obviously you didn't read the whopping 3 paragraphs and look at the screenshot that makes it quite clear that what they're doing is making it actually easy to use an encrypted filesystem from a desktop GUI. The instructions you post don't integrate into the desktop, nor are they by any means easy, sorry.

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