For installing Truecrypt on Raspbian I used the following article on carrier-lost.org : Raspberry Pi: Truecrypt on Raspbian. Nevertheless, I came across some minor problems. I succeeded in installing Truecrypt on Raspbian by following these steps:
To install Raspbian, I followed the detailed guide here. To get started with Raspbian I installed Firefox and Nautilus:
$ su $ apt-get install iceweasel $ apt-get install nautilus
In addition, make sure the build essentials are installed:
$ apt-get install build-essential
Note: Some of the following commands may require root access, so when not using su
as above, use sudo
instead. sudo
may not be installed in advance. For adding a user to the sudoer list, use
$ adduser <user> sudo
Now we are ready to install Truecrypt:
- Download the Truecrypt sources from here. As the current 7.2 is missing the
Makefile
, I (as in [1]) used version7.1a
. The source code is available here: https://github.com/FauxFaux/truecrypt. To unzip the downloaded.zip
file use theunzip
command:$ apt-get install unzip $ unzip truecrypt-targz.zip $ mv truecrypt-targz truecrypt-7.1a
I renamed the folder containing the truecrypt source files totruecrypt-7.1a
. - Download the wxWidgets files from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/2.8.11/. I used version
2.8.11
. Again, unzip the files:$ unzip wxWidgets-2.8.11.zip -d wxWidgets
- As described in [1], we need to download some needed header files. Download all
*.h
files from here: ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pkcs/pkcs-11/v2-20/ and place them inTruecrypt/pkcs/
. This can also be done using the command line:$ mkdir truecrypt-7.1a/pkcs $ wget ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pkcs/pkcs-11/v2-20/*.h -P truecrypt-7.1a/pkcs/
- Now, we need to install the following libraries:
$ apt-get install build-essentials $ apt-get install pkg-config $ apt-get install gtk2.0-dev $ apt-get install libfuse-dev
For a detailed list of requirements, see theREADME.txt
of the Truecrypt download:Requirements for Building TrueCrypt for Linux and Mac OS X: ----------------------------------------------------------- - GNU Make - GNU C++ Compiler 4.0 or compatible - Apple Xcode (Mac OS X only) - NASM assembler 2.08 or compatible (x86/x64 architecture only) - pkg-config - wxWidgets 2.8 shared library and header files installed or wxWidgets 2.8 library source code (available at http://www.wxwidgets.org) - FUSE library and header files (available at http://fuse.sourceforge.net and http://code.google.com/p/macfuse) - RSA Security Inc. PKCS #11 Cryptographic Token Interface (Cryptoki) 2.20 header files (available at ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pkcs/pkcs-11/v2-20) located in a standard include path or in a directory defined by the environment variable 'PKCS11_INC'.
- After installing all needed libraries, we are ready to compile wxWidgets. First configure and build wxWidgets (if
./configure
does not work immediately,chmod +x configure
may be appropriate). This may take some time ...$ cd wxWidgets $ ./configure $ make $ make install
- Now, we are ready to install Truecrypt:
$ cd ../truecrypt-7.1a $ export PKCS11_INC=/home/david/truecrypt-7.1a/pkcs/ $ make NOGUI=1 WX_ROOT=/home/david/wxWidgets-2.8.12 wxbuild $ make NOGUI=1 WXSTATIC=1
This, as well, may take some time. Note that my username isdavid
- so the paths/home/david/truecrypt-7.1a/pkcs/
and/home/david/wxWidgets-2.8.12/
need to be adapted accordingly. - Move the executable to the
/usr/local/bin
directory:$ cp Main/truecrypt /usr/local/bin/
To check whether truecrypt has been installed successfully:
$ truecrypt --version
which will be TrueCrypt 7.1a
.
Truecrypt is installed and can be used as follows, for example for mounting an external hard drive which is encrypted using truecrypt:
$ mkdir /media/truecrypt/ $ fdisk -l $ truecrypt /dev/sda1 /media/truecrypt/
Here, fdisk -l
is used to see whether the external hard drive is available (to know that we want to mount /dev/sda1
).
References
- [1] http://www.carrier-lost.org/raspberry-pi-truecrypt-on-raspbian/.
- [2]
Readme.txt
: http://sourceforge.net/projects/truecrypt/files/TrueCrypt/Other/TrueCrypt-7.2-source.zip/download - [3] http://askubuntu.com/questions/86849/how-to-unzip-a-zip-file-from-the-terminal
- [4] http://askubuntu.com/questions/11237/installing-gtk-development-environment
- [5] https://wiki.debian.org/sudo