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Bug 547410 - app-crypt/GostCrypt-1.0 : a disk encryption software based on TrueCrypt
Summary: app-crypt/GostCrypt-1.0 : a disk encryption software based on TrueCrypt
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Default Assignee for New Packages
URL: http://www.gostcrypt.org
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Reported: 2015-04-22 14:33 UTC by Vincent Hardy
Modified: 2020-08-30 05:14 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Vincent Hardy 2015-04-22 14:33:05 UTC
GostCrypt is a very promising fork of the Truecrypt project.
More informations here : http://www.gostcrypt.org/gostcrypt.php?langue=en

Compared to Veracrypt (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522186), GostCrypt is licensed under the GPL3.
Comment 1 tman 2015-05-21 05:36:34 UTC
would be also nice if we have a ebuild for it now in portage
Comment 2 Vincent Hardy 2015-11-06 19:30:39 UTC
(In reply to Vincent Hardy from comment #0)
> Compared to Veracrypt (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522186),
> GostCrypt is licensed under the GPL3.

From GostCrypt Changelog :

All the GostCrypt code has been finally be put under the original TrueCrypt licence following recommandations by people from the OCAP (see also http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/following-truecrypts-bombshell-advisory-developer-says-fork-is-impossible/) .This is the most suitable option to solve licences incompatibility.
Comment 3 Vincent Hardy 2015-11-29 16:08:35 UTC
There is an ebuild for GostCrypt on linuxunderground-overlay
https://github.com/linuxunderground/gentoo.overlay/tree/master/app-crypt/gostcrypt

There have been lot of changes for this fork of TrueCrypt. We can consider this version 1.0 of GostCrypt a bit like a beta version.

For more informations, see announcements here : http://www.gostcrypt.org/wiki/doku.php?id=start

known issues : 
tests are successful only on amd64
for x86 and arm ARCH :
$ gostcrypt --text --test
Error: TestFailed at GostCrypt::TestCipher:62