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Comment on How to use TrueCrypt®-encrypted Windows system drives on Linux by LukasT

LukasT — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:08:49 +0000

Worked on Fedora 16 nicely!

Comment on How to sing well: an introduction by Ink

Ink — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:57:11 +0000

Please do continue. I am haunted by the suspicion that I’m not doing most of this stuff right, and I really would like to sound good.

Comment on Git cheat sheet, extended edition by venkatesh

venkatesh — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:44:03 +0000

It is good

Comment on Finally: the perfect CAPTCHA by Niki

Niki — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:43:23 +0000

There is still a problem though. Blind people will not be able to see the form in order to fill it. Actually they will not even see the credit card, or the website, or the computer. By the way, how many credit cards did you have by now :D

Comment on Git cheat sheet, extended edition by Eric Davis

Eric Davis — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:33:01 +0000

I’m going to have to send this to a few clients of mine. They are thinking about switching from svn to git but are getting confused by all of the git commands.

Comment on How to use TrueCrypt®-encrypted Windows system drives on Linux by Jitesh Gajjar

Jitesh Gajjar — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:15:13 +0000

Hi,
I have tried this but get the following error message

sudo ./dmsetup-tc /dev/sdb /dev/sdb1 |dmsetup create win1

/dev/mapper/control: open failed: Permission denied
Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
Command failed

Any help appreciated.

Comment on How to use TrueCrypt®-encrypted Windows system drives on Linux by oli

oli — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:19:04 +0000

Hi Jan,

can you change the method boswap from int to unsigned int? Then it works nice on x86_64. I noticed my results in my blog. Check it out if you like :)

Your tool should be included in truecrypt. This is really a damn nice thing! Maybe i will write a GUI when i have some free time if its not included in TC.

Comment on How to use TrueCrypt®-encrypted Windows system drives on Linux by B.Ok

B.Ok — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:24:13 +0000

Hi guys,

Great tool followed by a nice debug chit-chat, a bit too technical for me i must confess.

Your article (s)/tool however is a sublime finding for me as it helped me understand why i repeatedly fail to mount a windows-made-truecrypt-drive (full drive encryption, non system drive).

Im eager to try it out in an attempt to mount the encrypted volume which has boot sector problem that i want to fix (i accidentally formatted the Drive under windows. It was not mounted when the blunder took place).

First, under windows, i fixed a header mismatch issue using TrueCrypt.
Afterwords, i could mount the device but couldn’t not accessed it because Windows don’t recognize the file system.
I used Testdisk to no avail trying to recover from the Boot Sector Backup.

I tried various Drive/Partition recovery tools but only WinHex could detect the mounted Volume (so it could help fixing the matter hopefully_im waiting for a reply from the developer of that application as to the chances of recovery…).
Meanwhile i keep on searching for alternative solutions like booting from a LiveCd, then use Truecrypt to load the Volume, ….

Enters your Tool.

Shall keep you posted on this one.

Thanks Guys.

B.Ok

Comment on How to use TrueCrypt®-encrypted Windows system drives on Linux by Jan

Jan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:58:03 +0000

Thanks for looking into this, oli. I’ve just uploaded a new version of dmsetup-tc that should hopefully fix the checksum validation. See if it works better for you.

Comment on How to use TrueCrypt®-encrypted Windows system drives on Linux by oli

oli — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:22:18 +0000

Sorry, forgot to mention the link:
http://l33tbox.de/index.php?/archives/8-Mounting-a-truecrypt-encrypted-windows-system-under-linux.html