Bug 348740

Summary: Add truecrypt-like LUKS+ext4 functionality like Gnome Disk Utility
Product: [Applications] partitionmanager Reporter: Paul Konecny <paul>
Component: generalAssignee: Andrius Štikonas <andrius>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 1.2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Wu44iexsfnU#t=812
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Description Paul Konecny 2015-06-05 11:03:36 UTC 
Hi,
I stumbled over a tutorial to create encrypted containers under Linux using fallocate and Gnome Disk Utility (see video link).
I then tried to do this with the KDE Partition Manager but I couldn't find a similar function. 
In my opinion it would be nice to achieve something like this with all KDE tools. 

I don't know if this is the right place for this request or maybe a new app should be written specifically for this purpose. 
Anyway this is my idea:
Partitonmanager or a new GUI tool, designed specifically for this purpose should be able to: 
- without root privileges 
- use fallocate to create a new file with specified size
- create a partition table on said file 
- create an encrypted LUKS+ext4 filesystem on said file
- mount this file via a password prompt

As all of this can be done with standard Linux tools the created container should be usable on almost any distribution. 
A name for a new program could be KryptKeeper, what do you think? ;)
Thanks!

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Andrius Štikonas 2015-06-05 11:39:38 UTC 
At some point it would be nice to have. Full disk encryption LUKS and LVM would also be desirable and might actually come earlier because it is more useful for OS installer programs.
Comment 2 Andrius Štikonas 2016-04-22 13:20:10 UTC 
LUKS support is coming soon, so then this bug essentially becomes a duplicate of
Bug 349605 - Add support for attaching files as loop devices

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 349605 ***
Comment 3 Andrius Štikonas 2017-03-09 22:51:51 UTC 
Note that upcoming Plasma Vault can actually do this too with Tomb backend:
http://cukic.co/2017/03/09/vault-for-the-privacy-of-your-data/

Probably better to use it there.