Crypt Manager – An encrypted folder manager for Ubuntu Linux

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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, it uses cryptsetup and LUKS as backend.

Crypt Manager is composed of three parts:

A python module called cryptsetup.py
A command line tool called crypt-manager
A GTK interface called gcrypt-manager
An extension to the GNOME file manager Nautilus

Install Crypt Manager in Ubuntu

sudo addgroup your-login fuse

sudo apt-get install encfs python2.4-dev python-nautilus subversion

svn checkout http://crypt-manager.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ crypt-manager

cd crypt-manager

sudo ./install.sh

This will complete the installation part now if you want to open Crypt Manager go to System -> Administration -> Encrypted folders or you can type the command in the terminal "gcrypt-amanger"

Once it open you should see the following screen.If you want to encrypt the folder click on Encrypt.

Once it open the encyptwindow you should see similar to the following screen here you need to select the folder and enter the password for this and click on apply

Now you can see the encryption is in progress bar as follows

If you want to decrypt select folder and click on decrypt.

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