[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] RFP:zuluCrypt - a frontend to cryptsetup and tcplay allowing GUI based management of LUKS, PLAIN and TRUECRYPT encrypted volumes

[Rodolfo (kix)]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:22 PM, .. ink .. <mhogomchungu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Package:wnpp
> Severity:wishlist
> License:GPLv2+
> home page: http://code.google.com/p/zulucrypt/
>
> Small description:
> zuluCrypt is a front end to cryptsetup,a linux native solution for hard
> drive encryption. As a GUI frontend,zuluCrypt makes it easy to use
> cryptsetup to manage PLAIN,LUKS as well as TRUECRYPT encrypted
> volumes(atleast version 1.6.0 of cryptsetup and 1.0.0 of tcplay are required
> for full truecrypt volume support).
>
> Introduction:
> Permission to introduce myself, i am the founder and current maintainer of
> the project mentioned above.I found the project to fill a gap i was
> experiencing in my own personal management of encrypted volumes and though
> to go public with it to share it with the whole linux community.The original
> idea was to give cryptsetup a GUI frontend that will match in functionality
> to truecrypt GUI to allow an easy management of cryptsetup volumes.
>
> cryptsetup[1] in version 1.6.0 got the ability to open truecrypt volumes and
> tcplay[2] (version 1.0 to be released shortly) was founded and a front end
> to these two great projects gives zuluCrypt a unified,"one stop GUI
> solution" to management of LUKS,PLAIN and TRUECRYPT volumes.
>
> I am,in this email,requesting for this package to be included in debian to
> allow its derivations to easily integrate it in their package systems.
>
> [1] http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/
> [2] https://github.com/bwalex/tc-play

Hi,

probably the cryptsetup team is interested in this info. Added in cc:

Cheers,
kix
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Rodolfo García Peñas "kix"