What's new in cryptmount 4.3 Beta 1
Jan 31, 2012
- This version adds support for environmental variables within configuration files and improved compatibility with cryptsetup-1.4.
New in cryptmount 4.2 (Jun 21, 2011)
- Improved protection against accidental formatting of swap partitions
- Improved support for management of LUKS partitions to mirror cryptsetup-1.2 It has been tested on the following systems: CentOS 5.6 (x86), Debian GNU/Linux 6.1 ("wheezy"/"testing", mid-June-2011) (x86), Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 ("squeeze") (x86, amd64), Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 ("lenny") (x86), Fedora 13 (x86_64), Gentoo (x86, early-June-2011), OpenSuSE 11.4 (x86), Ubuntu 10.04 ("lucid lynx") (x86_64), Ubuntu 8.04 ("hardy heron") (x86)
New in cryptmount 4.2 Beta 1 (May 5, 2011)
- Protection against accidental formatting of encrypted swap partitions was improved.
- LUKS compatibility to mirror cryptsetup-1.2 was updated.
- Block-offset and size calculations for encrypted optical media were patched.
New in cryptmount 4.0 (May 4, 2009)
- Support for encrypted filesystems protected by password, without the need for a separate keyfile or partition header
- Enhanced protection against password attacks in the builtin key-manager through additional hash-based password strengthening
- Improved support for selecting different encryption schemes when creating LUKS partitions
- Substantial tidying of internal interfaces & removal of legacy code
New in cryptmount 4.0 Beta 1 (Feb 24, 2009)
- Facilities for managing encrypted filesystems without needing separate key files were added.
- Support for creating LUKS encrypted filesystems compatible with cryptsetup was improved.
- The security of built-in key-file encryption was improved with a stronger password-based key-derivation function (PBKDF).
- Many areas of the source code were tidied.
New in cryptmount 4.0 Alpha 1 (Jan 7, 2009)
- Support for encrypted filesystems protected by password, without the need for a separate keyfile or partition header
- Enhanced protection against password attacks in the builtin key-manager through additional hash-based password strengthening
- Improved support for selecting different encryption schemes when creating LUKS partitions
- Substantial tidying of internal interfaces & removal of legacy code
New in cryptmount 3.1 (Oct 3, 2008)
- This (stable) release focuses on adding support for LUKS partitions
- Support for mounting of existing LUKS partitions was added
- Support for basic formatting of LUKS partitions was added
- Support for changing passwords on LUKS partitions was added
- It has been tested on the following systems:
- Debian GNU/Linux 4.1 ("lenny"/testing, mid-Sep08) (x86)
- Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 ("etch") (x86, amd64)
- Fedora 9 (x86)
- FedoraCore-7 (x86)
- OpenSuSE Linux 10.2 OSS (x86)
- Ubuntu 8.04 ("hardy heron") (x86)
- Ubuntu 7.10 ("gutsy gibbon") (x86)