Bug 547410

Summary:	app-crypt/GostCrypt-1.0 : a disk encryption software based on TrueCrypt
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Vincent Hardy <vincent.hardy.be>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	crypto+disabled, kripton, luke, sandino
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gostcrypt.org
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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