- cryptmount
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cryptmount Original author(s) RW Penney Stable release 4.2 / June 17, 2011 Written in C Operating system Linux Available in English, French Type Disk encryption License GNU General Public License Website http://cryptmount.sf.net/ cryptmount is a software tool for managing encrypted file systems under the GNU/Linux family of operating systems. It uses the device mapper and dm-crypt infrastructure to provide transparent encryption of file systems stored in disk partitions or within ordinary files.
Features
The main features of cryptmount include: An interactive setup script is supplied to allow basic, but effective, encrypted file systems to be created. Filesystems can be (un)mounted whenever needed by ordinary users, without requiring superuser/administrator privileges. Multiple encrypted filesystems can be stored within a single disk partition and Encrypted swap partitions are supported, and can be configured automatically on system boot-up. Configuration information about encrypted filesystems is stored within a free-format human-readable file. Access keys can be protected by a wide range of encryption and hashing algorithms provided by the libgcrypt library and can be compatible with the OpenSSL command-line tool, and be stored & backed-up separately from the filesystem that they protect.
External links
Categories:- Disk encryption
- Cryptographic software
- Free security software
- Linux security software
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