![]() When attempting to install TrueCrypt 7.1a on macOS 10.10 Yosemite and later versions (including macOS 10.14 Mojave), the installer will fail with an error message, “TrueCrypt requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later”. Update: Check out my post on how to Migrate TrueCrypt to VeraCrypt on macOS. Note: Truecrypt 7.1a is the last version to support the write function Truecrypt 7.2 is read-only. While Truecrypt 7.1a works without any issues on Windows 10, it has two issues on macOS 10.14 Mojave. Or does it use highly volatile keys like OpenBSD? That would be great, but considering they didn't even bother to automatically overwrite the swap file with random data when a user switches to encrypted swap, I doubt they thought it through that carefully.Even though development on TrueCrypt has ended, I still use it on both Windows and macOS computers. Does it generate a random key at each boot, like Linux? This is quite likely, but then the information is still available until the computer is shut down and the key deleted. What about the keys? Is there just one key you have to type in every time you boot? (Unlikely, not user friendly, but that is the case for Windows users using Truecrypt to access a partition containing their pagefile.sys.) If that were the case, the information would not be deleted, just unavailable to anyone who does not know the password when the computer is shut off. They obviously don't bother deleting what's already there. At least that's what I'd guess based on what I've read.īut I can't find any sort of technical description on the implementation. Things that were in swap before it got encrypted stay unencrypted, unless you take additional measures like overwriting swap with 0s or, better yet, randomness, before encrypting it. I believe the bug you mentioned can occur if you switch to using swap encryption after not using it. Any chance of fixing that? Well, at least JAP works, and I have another computer on which Tor does work.) (Incidentally, Tor doesn't work on Mac OS X 10.2.8 either. I have Mac OS X 10.2.8, and and I can't find any swap encryption or secure virtual memory feature in the Preferences. ![]() Thoughts on ways to make the OS X install easier, ostensibly via drag and drop install? Or is the effort to create a TBB for OS X a better use of resources? Much like the current Tor Browser Bundle (also, we should stop naming everything Tor), it would be self-contained and leave zero trace on the machine after closing. I'm now leaning towards creating a Tor Browser Bundle for OS X which can run out of the dmg or be installed via drag and drop. I've heard from enough people to know they tried to drag and drop the metapackage into Applications at first, and when that didn't work, double-clicked the metapackage to start the installer. In general, this method has worked well for most users. ![]() This metapackage contains a few scripts to run pre and post-installation, which do smart things to save current configurations, upgrade existing software binaries, and try to install Torbutton for Firefox. In comparison, the current method is to ship a dmg which contains a metapackage. This installation method also removes the ability to automatically install Torbutton for Firefox. Is it smart to think users will un-install their existing Vidalia/Tor bundle before using the drag and drop installation method? My inclination is that it isn't smart. While this works well for users that never installed Tor/Vidalia before, it doesn't work so well for existing installations. You now have Tor, Vidalia, and Polipo pre-configured and running completely out of Applications. In this new dmg, you just open it up and drag the Vidalia icon into Applications. In Vidalia trunk I committed a different way to install Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo. A few were surprised it required an installation at all. Many of them tried to drag the installation package to Applications. A few weeks ago, I watched some non-technical OS X users attempt to install the Vidalia-Tor Bundle.
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