Add LUKS container GUI or CLI utility by default

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Information

ID: 769
PHID: PHID-TASK-kgh5hszcxspz6gowzkr5
Author: HulaHoop
Status at Migration Time: resolved
Priority at Migration Time: Low

Description

Summary: zulcrypt is a GUI to make managing/creating LUKS containers easy. The version in Stretch has some problems that prevent it from working correctly. We can always add it later when these problems are fixed.

Testing thread: zulucrypt (LUKS container GUI / CLI)

• Debian -- Details of package zulucrypt-gui in buster
• https://packages.debian.org/buster/zulumount-gui

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Tomb is the pioneer of portable LUKS containers on Linux. See if they are a better experience when Buster rolls around.

• https://packages.debian.org/buster/tomb

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• anon-meta-packages/debian/control at master · Whonix/anon-meta-packages · GitHub
• belongs to non-qubes-vm-enhancements-gui

Comments

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HulaHoop

2018-09-14 01:46:12 UTC

Test out the (LUKS wrapper) Tomb implementation in KDE Vault. Should be around by Buster.

Plasma Vault Makes It Easy to Create Encrypted Folders on the KDE Desktop - OMG! Ubuntu

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HulaHoop

2019-02-02 02:49:52 UTC

Moved to xfce so past comment is irrelevant. Will test Zulu after moving to Buster and add if it works.

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HulaHoop

2019-03-22 22:39:32 UTC

Test the tomb LUKS container script as an alternative.

https://packages.debian.org/buster/tomb

The package is now part of Buster

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HulaHoop

2019-04-17 04:09:11 UTC

zulucrypt works in Buster. Tomb does not.

entropy /dev/random discussion

Steps remaining:

• Add zulucrypt to Whonix including its extensions?
• Document zulucrypt best practices. Where do instructions go?

@Patrick please give your input on the above questions.

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Patrick

2019-04-17 13:03:46 UTC

! In T769#18244, @HulaHoop wrote:

• Add zulucrypt to Whonix including its extensions?

Yes. See original ticket about where to add.

• Document zulucrypt best practices. Where do instructions go?

No idea. Please ask in https://forums.whonix.org/t/long-wiki-edits-thread mentioning this is non-qubes-whonix only.

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HulaHoop

2019-04-18 16:34:53 UTC

https://github.com/Whonix/anon-meta-packages/pull/20/commits/0ab1a0aa4b5e22149286d6156a1816e3ca65626c

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HulaHoop

2019-04-18 16:37:34 UTC

I also added the cli version to the non-qubes-vm-enhancements-cli section. It is a dep of a gui install but not vice versa. Zulucrypt plugin package was added there too since enchancements-cli is a subset of enhancements-gui.

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Patrick

2019-04-19 07:41:04 UTC

Merged.

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Patrick

2019-06-27 08:42:53 UTC

Does this work in Whonix VirtualBox 15.0.0.3.3 - Debian buster based - Testers Wanted!? @HulaHoop

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HulaHoop

2019-07-22 01:03:56 UTC

Yes Zulucrypt included and functional on KVM 15. However fixes for both zulucrypt and tomb haven’t made it into Buster from what I’ve tested. Zulucrypt has a tomb plugin to open Tomb files too.