Simplified Disk Encryption Coming to GNOME

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."

Re:Wrong level of the Stack

[QuantumG]

I dont know what you're talking about and I'm thinking it's because you don't either.

Re:TrueCrypt

[MBGMorden]

It's one of my favorite programs, but TrueCrypt was Windows only until it was ported to Linux 4 months ago. Not exactly what I'd call "years".

The Linux version is also a command-line program (or at least everything I've read on it have indicated as such). Integrating the same features into a nice interface would be a welcomed addition to the Gnome desktop.

Re:Wrong level of the Stack

[Omega Hacker]

Doesn't look fixed to me when a Gnome app can't save a file somewhere that the users (who don't give a d*mn what Gnome or KDE are) can see just fine in their KDE file browser. In my book that's called a "bug".

Re:I think my information is safe enough without i

[Hortensia Patel]

Interesting. In addition to the factors you mention, maybe people are more afraid of losing access to their data than of someone else gaining access to it. Forgetting passwords is the obvious risk, but I'd imagine that it's also significantly trickier to recover data from an encrypted filesystem if and when something breaks.

Re:TrueCrypt

[fcgreg]

Yes. The first reason that comes to mind is cross-platform encrypted volumes. For example, TrueCrypt is very nice for using encrypted volumes between Windows and Linux systems (e.g., USB Flash drives, portable HDD's, etc.).