I tried Unetbootin to put the truecrypt rescue.iso file on a USB stick, but the USB stick does not boot properly. It gets into an infinite loop with boot default in 10 seconds over and over again. The default setting is: /ubnkern initrd=/ubninit.

I am trying to get hold of truecrypt for an armhf linux or something similar. I was wondering if there were any sources to do this? or can anyone make a suggestion? I need it so when its ejected nothing is at risk from being left decrypted.

**Background** I had a problem under Windows with ndis.sys [sys don't start] *Status: 0xc00000e9 Info: Windows failed to load because a critical system driver...* To repair I had to fully decrypt drive [encrypted with TrueCrypt]. Encryption was running fine, but at some point it found a bad sector. At some point it slowed down decryption process significantly. As I was thinking it's a disk problem - I did a search and came across - option to do a full drive backup with Linux **dd** command. That supposed to give me image of whole HDD drive in case of ongoing corruption and possibility to run decryption from different drive. Lenovo G500s **What I did so far** sudo mkdir /mnt/usb sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/usb sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt/usb sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/usb/image.dd conv=noerror The result being dd: error reading '/dev/sda': Input/output error 254256+0 records in 254256+0 records out I have just noticed I can do image trough Disks [I work on latest Knoppix DVD], but didn't try it yet. Also I was getting suggestions that I can use dd_rescue, but has heard it is not exactly safe to the data on drive as it over-writes bad blocks? And didn't try it yet. I'm stuck, please help, I don't have a full backup of latest work from my sys partition, although seems that sda3 / sda5 was fully decrypted.

I didn't know where to ask this question, so I decided to ask it here. I think all of you know TrueCrypt, and that something weird happened to it some time ago. In the light of those events at least two TC's forks were created: VeraCrypt and ZuluCrypt . Those who are using the Debian distro know that TrueCrypt never made its way to the official Debian repository. I don't know really why, but since TC is gone, let's focus on the two forks. For now only ZuluCrypt is in the main Debian repository . But what about VeraCrypt? There's no VeraCrypt in the new package queue . So it looks like it's not going to be added to the repository at all, and the question is why? Is something wrong with the software?

From a previous Windows setup I have two Truecrypt encrypted harddrives. I can mount these without any problem during my fedora session with: sudo /sbin/cryptsetup open --type tcrypt /dev/sdb2 stuff sudo /sbin/cryptsetup open --type tcrypt /dev/sdb2 otherstuff I have automated this process with the help of . However, this is stil a bit tedious as I have to type the same passphrase is a bit long and I have to type it twice. I could just write a script storing my passphrase but this would be a vulnerability as the script can be read by anyone. I thought about storing the passphrase in the keyring, but I prefer not to save the passphrase on the pc. Additionally I have no Idea how to do this because I only found an [incomplete tutorial for Arch Linux](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Dm-crypt%2FMounting_at_login&type=revision&diff=425842&oldid=425740) . Since I use the same passphrase for the truecrypt drives as I do for the system drive, I wonder if I can mount these during startup with the passphrase to unlock the system partition. I run Fedora and any help is greatly appreciated! P.S. I have previously [asked this on Ask Fedora](http://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/93269/mount-truecrypt-volumes-using-system-encryption-passphrase/) with no response.

I have been trying to get a local repository located on a usb drive working on an air-gapped machine. The repository was created with apt-mirror on the same kind of system (ubuntu i386). Currently I am blocked by being unable to scan the packages on the usb drive. This is what happens: cd /media/truecrypt1/apt-mirror/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com sudo dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c > Packages.gz bash: Packages.gz Input/output error dpkg-deb: error: error reading archive magic version number from file ./ubuntu/pool/main/libm/libmaa/libmaa-dev_1.3.1-1_amd64.deb: Input/Output error dpkg-scanpackages: error: couldn't parse control information from ./ubuntu/pool/main/libm/libmaa/libmaa-dev_1.3.1-1_amd64.deb What could be my problem here? How do I diagnose an input/output error on a TrueCrypt container?

I'm askin myself, is there any software who can encrypt my whole hard drive with Linux Mint 17.3 on it AFTER the installation? Like TrueCrypt for Windows?! If not and I've to reinstall everthing is there any possibility to safe all my datas (including the installed programs) to restore it after an successful installation of an fully encrypted OS? Maybe with this tool (included in Linux Mint): ???

I log in to a server via public key authentication and then mount a container (using e.g. LUKS/dm-crypt or truecrypt). At the moment, I have to enter the container password manually. Is there a way to secure that container using e.g. the ssh agent? Or if that is not possible directly, can I encrypt the container password (or probably better, keyfile) with the ssh public key and use ssh agent to decrypt it temporarily?

my problem is this: I have to transfer data from my computer to a remote system that doesn't have an encrypted partition. Because I don't want that the transferred data can be retrieved by forensic tools (and I can't set up an encrypted partition at moment) I thought: - Mount the Truecrypt volume with SSH - With SFTP transfer data directly in the mounted volume - Unmount the volume Is this correct or is it dangerous?

I have a unix machine with truecrypt 7.1a installed. I'm trying to mount a volume to test with the command line but I don't have the truecrypt command installed evidently. Did the command line functionality come with the install before the software went crazy or am I doing something crazy? Or is there a place to download the the necessary files to put it on my machine?

I want to be able to use a CD/USB bootable "live" linux distribution to: * read a truecrypt volume * mount local drives Ubuntu Privacy Remix seemed perfect as it does include TrueCrypt, but it explicitly cannot see local drives (kernel source modified, as discussed here ). I want to use this live CD/USB distribution for backup/data recovery purposes, as in this question . For example, I might want to use truecrypt to decrypt the local drive and back it up unencrypted. Or, I might want to back up an unencrypted local drive to a truecrypt encrypted backup drive. Or both. Yes, it really really must be truecrypt (or something that can safely **and reliably** read/write **all valid** truecrypt partitions...). I'm aware that it is possible to boot one of the many live distros that doesn't have truecrypt, plug in a usb device with truecrypt on it, install truecrypt, and then use it for the above purposes. But that's painful and inelegant. Hence my question. **edit** I have tried to use cryptsetup, as described in the answer from Xen2050. Cryptsetup has problems mounting some truecrypt partitions . So the question still stands.