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GNU fcrypt

GNU fcrypt was a disk encryption software project intended to offer multiple hidden partitions, "on the fly encryption", and "plausible deniability". The now disbanded project was part of the GNU project. In November 2012 Richard Stallman, dubbed fcrypt as an official GNU project, after that the program was called GNU fcrypt.

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GNU fcrypt
DeveloperFabio Gonzalez12
Operating systemLinux, GNU/Hurd
TypeDisk encryption software3
LicenseGNU GPL
Websitehttps://www.gnu.org/software/fcrypt

GNU fcrypt was a disk encryption software project intended to offer multiple hidden partitions, "on the fly encryption" (automatic and transparent encryption), and "plausible deniability".3 The now disbanded project was part of the GNU project.23 In November 2012 Richard Stallman, dubbed fcrypt as an official GNU project, after that the program was called GNU fcrypt.3

The software's encryption was intended to prove resistant to being cracked by quantum computers.4

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  1. GNU's Who - List of GNU Contributors
  2. "GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry (November 2012)". Free Software Foundation. Dec 3, 2012. Archived from the original on Jan 15, 2023.
  3. "Index of /software/fcrypt". GNU.
  4. "GNU fcrypt manual". GNU. Archived from the original on Jun 6, 2013.