Introduction

Crypt Manager is the Google Summer of Code project of Kévin Dunglas 1 for Ubuntu, 2 mentored by Jani Monoses 3. The goal of this project is to increase security of sensitives data especially on computers which can be thieved (like laptops). Crypt manager is a compilation of tools which allow to easily encrypt, open, close and uncrypt folders in a Desktop environment. It is wrote in Python 4, it EncFS 5 as backend. Gcrypt Manager, the graphical interface for Crypt Manager also use Pygtk 6 and Glade 7.

Note: Crypt Manager was using use cryptsetup 8 and LUKS 9 as backend at developpement start. See deprecated downloads.

• 1 http://placelibre.ath.cx/keyes/
• 2 http://www.ubuntu.com/
• 3 http://janimo.blogspot.com/
• 4 http://www.python.org/
• 5 http://arg0.net/wiki/encfs
• 6 http://www.pygtk.org/
• 7 http://glade.gnome.org/
• 8 http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/
• 9 http://luks.endorphin.org/

Details

The Crypt Manager project is composed of three parts:

• A Python module called cryptsetup.py which perform basics crypt, uncrypt, open and close operations on crypted folders. See CryptManagerModule
• A command line tool using the module called crypt-manager. See CommandLineTool
• A GTK interface using the module called gcrypt-manager. See GcryptManager
• A Nautilus extension. See GnomeIntegration