Conceal is an encrypted folder management tool for Linux. This the Google Summer of Code 2007 project of Kévin Dunglas, mentored by Jani Monoses of Ubuntu.

Conceal: http://code.google.com/p/conceal/ Ubuntu Linux: http://www.ubuntu.com/ Google Summer of Code: http://code.google.com/soc/

!!! READ THIS BEFORE ANY USE !!!

This is a BETA software pulished ONLY FOR TEST purpose ! It can DESTROY your data. Test it only on BACKUPED directories.

Please send us report using our issues tracker at code.google.com. Don't forget to attach the traceback (everything displayed in the terminal window). Please join to your report a TAR archive (compressed with gzip or bzip2) of the directory you have tried to encrypt.

conceal

• Depends of:
  • Python
  • EncFS

conceal-gtk

• Depends of:
  • Python
  • GTK
  • PyGTK

nautilus-conceal:

• Depends of:
  • Python
  • Nautilus
  • Nautilus Python binding

conceal-kde

• Depends of:
  • Python
  • KDE devel
  • PyQT
  • PyQT tools
  • PyKDE
  • PyKDE extensions
  • libpythonize

To install a component just go into his directory and type as root:

python setup.py install

Command: conceal

Usage: conceal [options]

Options: --version show program's version number and exit -h, --help show this help message and exit -e DIRECTORY, --encrypt=DIRECTORY encrypt DIRECTORY -c DIRECTORY, --close=DIRECTORY close DIRECTORY -o DIRECTORY, --open=DIRECTORY open encrypted DIRECTORY -i IDLE, --idle=IDLE automaticaly close after IDLE time -d DIRECTORY, --decrypt=DIRECTORY decrypt DIRECTORY -p DIRECTORY, --change-password=DIRECTORY change the password of DIRECTORY -l, --clean Clean directories list -s, --stdin Get input from stdin

Examples :

Create some samples

dunglas@kirk:/Projects/conceal$ mkdir test dunglas@kirk:/Projects/conceal$ echo "Bonjour" > test/bonjour dunglas@kirk:~/Projects/conceal$ echo "Aurevoir" > test/aurevoir

Encrypt a directory

dunglas@kirk:~/Projects/conceal$ ./conceal --encrypt test Password: azerty

[...]

# List the content of the directory unmounted dunglas@kirk:~/Projects/conceal$ ls test

Open the encrypted directory

dunglas@kirk:~/Projects/conceal$ ./conceal --open test Password: azerty

List the content of the mounted encrypted directory

dunglas@kirk:~/Projects/conceal$ ls test aurevoir bonjour lost+found

Close it

dunglas@kirk:~/Projects/conceal$ ./conceal --close test

List if content

dunglas@kirk:~/Projects/conceal$ ls test

Decrypt it

dunglas@kirk:~/Projects/conceal$ ./conceal --decrypt test Password: azerty aurevoir bonjour lost+found