Zulucrypt

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Zulucrypt allows you to open and create encrypted files and drives [1].

Why?

TrueCrypt was abandoned and forked to become Veracrypt.

The main VeraCrypt app has licensing issues and therefore isn't available directly in the Debian repos.

You *can* mount a VeraCrypt volume on linux using zuluCrypt, which is licensed openly and available in the Debian repos

How

You can access a VeraCrypt volume using zulucrypt.

This guide assumes you're using a Debian-based system (with apt).

Install

sudo apt-get install zulucrypt-gui
zuluCrypt-gui

Open a File - Try 1

Open-> Volume hosted in a file -> filepath and select file.

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After you select the file, such as ose-veracrypt, it will ask you for a password.

I typed in my strong password (selected the password option),and got:

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

Try 2

  • Selected ose-veracrypt on the usb stick, whereas before I selected ose-veracrypt on desktop
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  • Also selected VeraCrypt instead of TrueCrypt etc, and bingo:
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Restoring Keyfile

  • The shared passwords file is protected with another strong password, stored in user's personal keypass, AND a key file, stored on the encrypted folder which was just unlocked.
  • The unencrypted folder directory is in /run/media/private/marcin directory
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  • Ideally, password and keyfile open the shared keepass file. But no luck, keepass database doesn't open:
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Restoring Keyfile 2

The above was done using backups, so possibly the password or keyfile was changed?

But now, how to restore keys from a private and public key that is stored on an encrypted folder -

To restore your ssh key, copy the id_rsa and id_rsa.pub files onto your computer into the '.ssh/' directory on your home folder on your computer, and then run:

ssh -p [secretportnumber] [username]@[ipaddress]

Bingo!

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