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@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ zuluCrypt (CLI and GUI frontend to cryptsetup).
zuluCrypt is a simple, feature rich and powerful solution for hard
drives encryption.
+zuluCrypt is a front end to cryptsetup and tcplay and it allows easy
+management of encrypted block devices.
+
zuluCrypt is made up of two components:
The back end, CLI interface is called "zuluCrypt-cli".
The front end is Qt GUI application called "zuluCrypt-gui.
@@ -10,21 +13,22 @@ The front end is Qt GUI application called "zuluCrypt-gui.
* zuluCrypt:
zuluCrypt does hard drives encryption and it can manage plain dm-crypt
-volumes,LUKS encrypted volumes, TrueCrypt encrypted volumes and VeraCrypt
-encrypted volumes.
+volumes, LUKS encrypted volumes, TrueCrypt encrypted volumes and
+VeraCrypt encrypted volumes.
-zuluCrypt can manage encrypted volumes that are hosted in image files,in
-lvm volumes,in mdraid volumes as well as in hard drives and usb sticks.
+zuluCrypt can manage encrypted volumes that are hosted in image files,
+in lvm volumes, in mdraid volumes as well as in hard drives and usb
+sticks.
zuluCrypt can also encrypt stand alone files:
zuluCrypt menu->zC->encrypt a file.
* zuluMount:
-zuluMount is bundled with zuluCrypt and its meant to be used as a general
-purpose tool that mount and unmount zuluCrypt supported encrypted volumes
-as well as unencrypted volumes and it can be used as a substitute to
-udisks,pmount and related tools.
+zuluMount is bundled with zuluCrypt and its meant to be used as a
+general purpose tool that mount and unmount zuluCrypt supported
+encrypted volumes as well as unencrypted volumes and it can be
+used as a substitute to udisks,pmount and related tools.
zuluMount-gui can also be used as a frontend to encfs.
@@ -39,5 +43,4 @@ If you want that feature, change the value -DNOGNOME=false or
-DNOKDE=false to "true". About these and other options, please check
/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/BUILD_INSTRUCTIONS.
-Optional dependency : tc-play (also available as
-internal copy in the zuluCrypt source).
+Optional dependencies: tc-play or the (recommended): zuluplay.