TrueCrypt and Ubuntu

These days most of life is recorded on our desktops, laptops, and netbooks. And in the case of the note and net books, we are carrying our lives with us. This means bank account info, saved passwords for web sites and so on all contained in a little box that someone could steal. Dont worry like those popular cell phone commercials say "there's an app for that".

Say hello to Truecrypt.
"Hi!"-you say
"wusup"-Truecrypt says.
"Not much just trying to hide stuff, can you help?"
"No Doubt!"-Truecrypt replies.

Any way you can get it --->here<---. If your running #! or ubuntu there is a ".deb" for that. I put that in quotes because it is really a tar balled script. Extract the script to your home dir, then open a terminal. command: $sh nameoftruecryptscript This will open a dialog that will ask you if you want to extract the .deb, I guess for later use or something, or install. Just select install.

This will open in debian installer and do the usual.

Ubuntu will create a menu option under something like "other". In #! its not as simple, but you can add the entry to the openbox menu later.
To run the app-

alt-F2

"truecrypt" --without the quotes

Then you get this:


















Use the Volumes drop down and choose "Create a New Volume" to, you guessed it, create a new encrypted volume. Its pretty straight forward it will give you options to configure your volume. I would suggest creating a container instead of encrypting a partition.

Youve created the volume and now its time to use it. "Select File" and find your way to the volume you created. I created the volume .crypt in my home dir. Select mount.
It will have you enter the pass word for the volume and then your system password.
In Ubuntu, if you have "show volumes" enabled, the volume will show up on your desktop.
But if your in Crunch heres the deal:

It wants to open your dir in Nautilus. So, I guess you could:

Option 1 - sudo apt-get install nautilus

and then double click on the volume in the Truecrypt Interface,

Option 2 - you can simply find your mounted volume as /media/Truecrypt1.

Add all the files you want and then unmount knowing that they are protected!