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Cryptmount

Cryptmount is a powerful utility that allows any user to access encrypted filesystems on-demand under GNU/Linux systems without requiring root privileges.It requires Linux 2.6 or higher. It handles both encrypted partitions as well as encrypted files.

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  • Free
  • Open Source

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  • Linux
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What is Cryptmount?

The device-mapper technologies offered by the Linux kernel provide many options for creating encrypted filesystems, but require a number of steps before an encrypted filing system can actually be mounted and made available in user-space. These steps are typically not supported directly by the 'mount' or 'pmount' commands, nor does the syntax of /etc/fstab lend itself to describing all the necessary filesystem parameters. This is especially so if the filesystem is stored in an ordinary file, which would require separate configuration of a loopback device and a devmapper target before the filesystem could be accessed.

cryptmount was created to make it as easy for ordinary users to access encrypted filesystems on-demand using the modern devmapper mechansism as it was to use the older, now deprecated, cryptoloop methods. This offers the following advantages: