Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jasper van Hoorn <muz...@gmail.com>
* Package name : luckyLUKS-gtk Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : Jasper van Hoorn <muz...@gmail.com> * URL : https://github.com/jas-per/luckyLUKS * License : GPLv3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Gtk-GUI for creating and (un-)locking encrypted volumes from LUKS/TrueCrypt container files luckyLUKS-gtk contains alternative gtk2 (python2) and gtk3 (python3) packages of the qt-based application luckyLUKS, that provides a graphical interface for using encrypted LUKS/TrueCrypt container files [1]. Encrypted containers offer some advantages compared to encrypted partitions especially for casual users : -> No need to deal with partition table wizardry when creating an encrypted container, you basically create a file on a harddrive, it doesn't matter if its an internal one or an external usbstick etc.. -> Backup is straightforward as well, just copy the file somewhere else -> sharing confidential information: again, copy the container file. similar to gpg encrypted archives but easier to handle: unlock -- view or modify data -- lock again -> You can easily add some encrypted private data to an unencrypted external harddrive without repartitioning -> Lots of users are already quite familiar with all this, because their first touch with data encryption has been TrueCrypt which uses the encrypted container approach The success of TrueCrypt has been based on making the rather complex operation of handling encrypted data easy to perform, even for casual computer users - using containers (simple files) instead of partititons helped a lot in reducing that complexety, because many casual users are confident in handling files, while only a much smaller group likes to deal with partitions. Right now support for encrypted containers in Linux faces a bit of a chicken- and-egg problem: To encourage users to encrypt their personal data everywhere a simple interface to handle encrypted containers and getting used to the concept is needed. Ideally support for encrypted containers could be provided by an application tightly coupled with a desktop environment or file manager, but this won't be a priority as long as there is no demand from casual users. The aim of luckyLUKS is to help testing the water by providing a GUI for all the basic needs in regard to encrypted containers. To enable efficient integration into most current desktop environments without requiring substantial dependencies, the major current toolkits are supported: gtk2/3 and qt4/5. All versions have been extensively tested on the current debian releases and various debian based distributions. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780114 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150505184910.1805.42682.reportbug@E320
