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Truecrypt is dead. Long Live DoxBox.

Journal by tdk
I am pleased to announce the project I have been working on the last couple of months is ready for beta testing.

DoxBox: Open-Source disk encryption for Windows. Think Truecrypt++

Features
  • Easy to use, with a 'wizard' for creating new 'DoxBoxes'.
  • Full transparent encryption, DoxBoxes appear as removable disks in Windows Explorer.
  • Explorer mode lets you access DoxBoxes when you don't have admin permissions.
  • Compatible with Linux encryption, Cryptoloop "losetup", dm-crypt, and LUKS. Linux shell scripts support deniable encryption on Linux.
  • Supports smartcards and security tokens.
  • Encrypted DoxBoxes can be a file, a partition, or a whole disk.
  • Opens legacy volumes created with FreeOTFE
  • Runs on Windows Vista onwards (see note below for 64 bit versions).
  • Supports numerous hash (including SHA-512, RIPEMD-320, Tiger) and encryption algorithms (Including AES, Twofish, and Serpent) in several modes (CBC, LRW, and XTS), giving more options than any other disk encryption software.
  • Optional 'key files' let you use a thumb-drive as a key.
  • Portable mode doesn't need to be installed and leaves little trace on 3rd party PCs (administrator rights needed).
  • Deniable encryption protects you from 'rubber hose cryptography'.

Please note this is a Beta version with some known limitations. Particularly in Portable mode an extra step is needed on 64 bit Windows to avoid the error message "Windows requires a digitally signed driver".

links
Download
Download DoxBox Portable
GitHub Page
Download page
Release notes and announcement
Please repost to whichever forums you think apt.

regards
tdk

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  • (Score: 2) by bryan on Saturday August 23 2014, @07:18AM

    by bryan (29) <bryan@pipedot.org> on Saturday August 23 2014, @07:18AM (#84617) Homepage Journal

    Interesting project that you picked up; I had never heard of FreeOTFE. Just don't mysteriously disappear like Sarah. :)

    Because I don't trust the Windows OS, I wouldn't trust anything run on it to ever be fully secure. However, the plausible deniability of hidden containers is a neat concept from projects like TrueCrypt that haven't fully been replicated on the Linux side. The FAQ says that Linux containers are simply formated as LUKS - Can DoxBox create a hidden container in Linux? In other words can you store a LUKS formated filesystem in a partition that looks like just random data with DoxBox?

    • (Score: 2) by tdk on Saturday August 23 2014, @05:37PM

      by tdk (346) on Saturday August 23 2014, @05:37PM (#84712) Homepage Journal
      DoxBox can certainly handle hidden containers inside LUKS volumes.
      LUKS has a distinctive header, so the hidden container isn't LUKS, it's 'plain' crypt.
      I have some scripts to create/open hidden containers on Linux, but I haven't checked them in to github yet. It's not too difficult to do - cryptsetup has an 'offset' parameter.
      You might want to look at stlth [sourceforge.net] meanwhile.

    • (Score: 2) by tdk on Saturday August 23 2014, @05:50PM

      by tdk (346) on Saturday August 23 2014, @05:50PM (#84717) Homepage Journal

      It's odd that Sarah Dean disappeared at about the same time the Truecrypt team closed shop, which was about the same time as there was a surge in interest in OTFE because of Snowden.
      A paranoid person might think that they were 'neutralised' by the authorities somehow. If that's the case then I'm n!$*%& [NO CARRIER]

  • (Score: 2) by etherscythe on Tuesday August 26 2014, @10:52PM

    by etherscythe (937) on Tuesday August 26 2014, @10:52PM (#85956) Journal

    Glad to see the efforts underway here. Question: I use a Truecrypt portable setup with read-only mounting as a means of preventing files in my "protected storage" from being deleted by screwball antivirus programs (Norton and Mcafee are the usual suspects) from my professional-use flash drive. Is there any such operation mode in DoxBox?

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