Due to licensing issues TrueCrypt is not included in Fedora 15 (source here). Although not address by Fedora itself there's also concerns regarding the developers identities and related issues (source here). I'm looking for possible alternatives that matches the following requisites:
- Compliance with Fedora licensing guidelines
- Able to encrypt a partition
- Allows me to mount the encrypted partition both on Windows and Linux (I'm using a dual boot system)
- Peer reviewed by the cryptography community
Is there any package that meet those guidelines?
Best Answer
LUKS (a.k.a. cryptsetup) is the standard for Linux disk encryption. It can encrypt a whole encryption, or a set of partitions through LVM.
With FreeOTFE, you can also access LUKS encrypted volumes under Windows. From the cryptsetup homepage:
cryptsetup
is licensed under GPLv2 and according to this Licensing article, it is compliant with the Fedora licensing guidelines.