zuluCrypt provides command-line and graphical tools for managing encrypted storage on Linux. It acts as a frontend to established encryption infrastructure and supports several volume formats rather than tying users to a single storage scheme.
The project includes zuluCrypt for encrypted-volume management and zuluMount for general mounting and unmounting. The graphical components use Qt, while command-line components allow the suite to be used without a desktop environment.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Manage LUKS and plain dm-crypt volumes.
- Open and manage VeraCrypt and TrueCrypt formatted volumes.
- Supports Microsoft BitLocker encrypted volumes through the appropriate supporting tools.
- Works with encrypted volumes stored on hard drives, USB devices, LVM volumes, RAID devices and image files.
- Can encrypt individual standalone files as well as block devices.
- Provides both command-line and Qt graphical interfaces.
- zuluMount offers desktop-independent mounting and unmounting of encrypted and ordinary volumes.
- zuluMount-gui can also act as a frontend for encrypted filesystems including gocryptfs, EncFS, securefs, eCryptfs and CryFS.
- Supports ordinary passphrases and key files.
- Volume keys can be protected using YubiKey challenge-response functionality.
- Supports multiple TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt keyfiles.
- Can create plain dm-crypt storage within part of an ordinary file for steganographic use cases.
- GUI components are optional and the command-line tools can be built and used independently.
- Normal-user command-line workflows reduce the need to operate routine volume-management tasks as root.
Website: mhogomchungu.github.io/zuluCrypt
Support: FAQ, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Francis Banyikwa
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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Related Software
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|---|---|
| VeraCrypt | Strong disk encryption software |
| loop-AES | Encrypt disk partitions, removable media, swap space and other devices |
| dm-crypt | Transparent disk encryption subsystem |
| cryptsetup | Configures encrypted block devices |
| GnuPG | GNU Privacy Guard - implementation of the OpenPGP standard |
| gocryptfs | Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go |
| Tomb | System for file encryption |
| Shufflecake | Create multiple hidden volumes |
| zuluCrypt | Feature rich solution for hard drive encryption |
| cryptmount | Managing encrypted file systems |
| disk-encryption-tool | Encrypt existing Linux storage without reinstalling the system |
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