enciso

enciso is a wrapper script, written in Perl, for creating encrypted ISO9660 images using GnuPG, aespipe and genisoimage. The images created by this tool can be written to CD or DVD, these discs can be transparently mounted on any system with loop-AES support.

Installation

You should first check the requirements below, even if you are using the Debian package!

Debian users may install the package enciso from my repository. The following instructions provide generic installation information for other distributions.

Download the archive (see below), and extract it:

~$ tar xzf enciso-0.1.tar.gz

In the new directory enciso-0.1/ run the following commands as root:

~/enciso-0.1# make
~/enciso-0.1# make install
~/enciso-0.1# make clean

This will put all files in subdirectories of the /usr/local/ directory:

binaries: /usr/local/bin/
documentation: /usr/local/doc/enciso/
man pages: /usr/local/man/
configuration: /usr/local/etc/enciso/

To uninstall all files, run (as root in the enciso-0.1/ directory):

~/enciso-0.1# make uninstall

Note that this will also delete the system wide configuration file!

The Debian package conforms to the Debian policy, installing all files in /usr/ and the configuration in /etc/, if you want this behaviour when installing manually, use the following command:

~/enciso-0.1# PREFIX=/usr make install

Note that in this case you must use the appropriate uninstall command, too:

~/enciso-0.1# PREFIX=/usr make uninstall

If you set the PREFIX to some other directory, all files, including the configuration, will be installed in the appropriate subdirectories of this directory. Note: You may need to change the path to the system wide configuration in the enciso script when installing with a PREFIX (look around line 100)!

Documentation

To display the man page, run

~/$ man enciso

If you have any questions, suggestions etc. feel free to send me a mail.

Requirements

You need the IPC::Run Perl module to run the script. Additionally:

To create encrypted images:

To mount encrypted images:

loop-aes-utils
loop-aes-modules for your kernel

Everything else should be installed on every standard system. Please tell me in case I missed something.

Note: The Debian package depends on libipc-run-perl, aespipe, genisoimage, gnupg and perl-modules. These packages will be installed automatically by your package manager if you install from my repository. It does not depend on the loop-aes-utils and loop-aes-modules packages, these must be installed manually if you want to mount the encrypted images/discs.

Bugs

When using an existing key file you should not use the --checksum option (or set it to none) as the checksum will not be written to the file in most cases (it will be shown, though, and you may manually add it to the key file).
When using the --noinfo option together with the --checksum option the checksum will be calculated but not written to the key file or image (again, it will be shown and you may manually add it to the key file or image).
Currently there are no --help and --version command line options.

Submit a new bug report.

Download

Debian users should use the repository (recommended), or download the Debian package.

Everyone else: download enciso-0.1.tar.gz (version 0.1, 2008/06/19, 28 kB)

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.