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Installing TrueCrypt on EEEBuntu

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

Short after buying the EEEPC I also bought a 320 GB external USB hard disk to be used in support to EEEPC small internal drive. I decided (mainly because of my job) to secure, using cryptography, at least one disk partition. I’m not sure the cryptography settings I did choose would work against any professional hacker but they should be enough to stop  most ‘curious‘ people who might, in any way, gain access to my disk . I decided to install TrueCrypt mainly because it’s a multi-platform application so I could possibly prepare encrypted partitions to be used from both Linux and windows computers.

 Installation

I first downloaded  truecrypt-6.1a-ubuntu-x86.tar.gz  (the x86 32bit ubuntu compiled version) from its site downloads page. then I extracted and executed the installation program …

 tar -xvf truecrypt-6.1a-ubuntu-x86.tar.gz
./truecrypt-6.1a-setup-ubuntu-x86 

The installation graphic user interface started and I simply had to click the ‘Install TrueCrrypt‘ button and then agreed with the software license. Once installation was completed TrueCrypt icon was automatically placed in the ‘other’ folder.

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