mhogomchungu
May 18th, 2013, 05:29 AM
Greetings to all members of this community.I hope my post will not be taken as spamming the forum as that is not my intent,my intent is to introduce my project in a hope that it will be useful to members of this community.
Permission to introduce myself,i am the founder and current maintainer of a project called "zuluCrypt" hosted at: http://code.google.com/p/zulucrypt/
The link to zuluMount-gui screenshots are at the end of page.
zuluMount is a front end to zuluCrypt and its purpose is to give a simple to use CLI and GUI Desktop environment/file manager independent solution for mounting of encrypted as well as unencrypted volumes.Currently supported encrypted volumes are truecrypt volumes and cryptsetup's plain and luks volumes.
It does not use polkit authorization mechanism and does not require d-bus to work and hence can be a good alternative for those who do not like these two components for whatever reason.
It can be used as an alternative to GUI application to manage truecrypt volumes.Truecrypt application is released under questionable license and some distributions prefer not to include it[1][2]
It has a command line component that is better suited for third party developers than udisks as udisks prefers it not to be used by third party developers whose work is not tied up to desktop environments[3]
It being independent of Desktop environments or file managers makes it an ideal single solution for those who constantly switch DE or file managers as the same tool can be in across them.
It being about to deal with encrypted volumes as well as non encrypted volumes makes it a "one stop mounting solution"
I am the founder and current maintainer of the project just though i should mention it here to increase its awareness as i think there need to be more tools like it.All tools that have the same functionality are usually bolted on file managers or desktop environment making them not easily accessible outside of them.
A tool with the same independence is udevil[5] but the independence is only at the CLI since its GUI frontend is tied to SpaceFM[6]
[1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items?rd=ForbiddenItems#TrueCrypt
[2]https://tails.boum.org/todo/provide_a_migration_path_from_truecrypt/
[3]http://udisks.freedesktop.org/docs/latest/udisks.8.html
[4]http://ignorantguru.github.io/udevil/
[5]http://ignorantguru.github.io/spacefm/
Will appreciate any comment you may have and thanks for giving me this opportunity to discuss my project with this community.
Permission to introduce myself,i am the founder and current maintainer of a project called "zuluCrypt" hosted at: http://code.google.com/p/zulucrypt/
The link to zuluMount-gui screenshots are at the end of page.
zuluMount is a front end to zuluCrypt and its purpose is to give a simple to use CLI and GUI Desktop environment/file manager independent solution for mounting of encrypted as well as unencrypted volumes.Currently supported encrypted volumes are truecrypt volumes and cryptsetup's plain and luks volumes.
It does not use polkit authorization mechanism and does not require d-bus to work and hence can be a good alternative for those who do not like these two components for whatever reason.
It can be used as an alternative to GUI application to manage truecrypt volumes.Truecrypt application is released under questionable license and some distributions prefer not to include it[1][2]
It has a command line component that is better suited for third party developers than udisks as udisks prefers it not to be used by third party developers whose work is not tied up to desktop environments[3]
It being independent of Desktop environments or file managers makes it an ideal single solution for those who constantly switch DE or file managers as the same tool can be in across them.
It being about to deal with encrypted volumes as well as non encrypted volumes makes it a "one stop mounting solution"
I am the founder and current maintainer of the project just though i should mention it here to increase its awareness as i think there need to be more tools like it.All tools that have the same functionality are usually bolted on file managers or desktop environment making them not easily accessible outside of them.
A tool with the same independence is udevil[5] but the independence is only at the CLI since its GUI frontend is tied to SpaceFM[6]
[1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items?rd=ForbiddenItems#TrueCrypt
[2]https://tails.boum.org/todo/provide_a_migration_path_from_truecrypt/
[3]http://udisks.freedesktop.org/docs/latest/udisks.8.html
[4]http://ignorantguru.github.io/udevil/
[5]http://ignorantguru.github.io/spacefm/
Will appreciate any comment you may have and thanks for giving me this opportunity to discuss my project with this community.