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