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Konstantin Kalishko
Important data can easily be protected against unauthorized access using encrypted containers. Tomb is a potential replacement for the now discontinued TrueCrypt, and it performs its job elegantly just using Linux's onboard tools and standard processes.
Current Linux distributions make it easy to use encryption to secure your home directory against prying eyes. But encrypting whole partitions also has some drawbacks: First, you need to decide whether to encrypt whole partitions when installing the system. Second, encryption makes data recovery more difficult if you cannot boot the system.
Swapping an encrypted partition out to another disk is also tricky. Many users thus prefer to use encrypted containers like the ones that you can (or used to be able to) create and integrate with TrueCrypt [1], for example.
The TrueCrypt developers surprisingly stopped working on the software when support for Windows XP ended. They said that TrueCrypt wasn't secure because it might contain unfixed vulnerabilities.
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Your privacy is threatened left, right and center. And it is not only online criminals snooping on your data, but also meddling government agencies and unscrupulous companies. Either way, there are still things you can do to fight back.
ZuluCrypt is an easy-to-operate graphical front end that is suitable for encrypting files, partitions, and drives with LUKS, TrueCrypt, VeraCrypt, and dm-crypt. ZuluCrypt cannot handle a complete encryption of the entire system, but it is able to scramble system partitions.
SiriKali, formerly known as cryfs-gui, delivers a graphical interface for four file encryption tools that the user would otherwise have to operate from the command line.
USB sticks and external hard drives can easily be lost or stolen. You should therefore protect these storage media against loss and misuse. UsbCryptFormat lets you do this without much effort.
US intelligence agencies tap into billions of call data and electronic messages monthly – reason enough to consider encrypting your email traffic.
