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Any sign of LUKS (Linux Unified Key setup) support yet?
Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Not currently supported and probably unlikely to be supported in the future. If you want something cross-platform then look at veracrypt/truecrypt format — there are cli and gui clients for mac, osx, windows, ios, android.
Not currently supported and probably unlikely to be supported in the future. If you want something cross-platform then look at veracrypt/truecrypt format — there are cli and gui clients for mac, osx, windows, ios, android.
Unless someone in the open source community ports this to the Mac hardware and OS X, I'm guessing it is unlikely Apple is going to do anything with LUKS, as they have their own FileVault whole disk encryption and key management.
Also the kind of license the software carries affects whether Apple can even look at it. GPLv3 is Apple hostile. What license is on all the LUKS components?
Thank you for the reply.
Since I support Linux, Windows, MAC, I am always looking for ways to read things universally on all three.
Since MAC doesn't like to play nice with the other kids in the sand box, I have started just booting off a Linux Live flash drive, so I can have access to all my cool tools. Just hold down the option key when booting. I have not had to blue tooth pair bond with the MAC keyboard yet, but it is not much of an issue as I use a virtual keyboard, which, since I can type, is about as easy to use as that little MAC keyboard. (I adore the Unicomp keyboards, as they are perfect for typists.) The little keyboard would be perfect for hunt and peckers.
I looked for LUKS' license and did not find it. Oh well.
You could use virtual machines to run Windows and Linux platforms on your Mac (given enough RAM).
I use my iMac to access Windows, Linux, AIX, and Solaris systems via ssh, VNC, and RDC connections everyday at work. I find that the Unix underside of OS X to be rather helpful (of course I have to sometimes add 'uname' checks in scripts to customize some command line arguments, but that is not just because of OS X, as AIX and Solaris do not use the same command line options as Linux either; and Cygwin on Windows makes that environment tolerable 🙂).
Per the repository, the LUKS package appears to be GPL3. I'd be surprised if Apple integrated or particularly even worked on GPL3 LUKS code here, because GPL3 "doesn't like to play nice with the other kids in the sand box".
Which means it's up to the community to port the software. If you want or need LUKS, then you or somebody else that wants it and wants to work on it will have to port LUKS to OS X, or update the existing support. There's some evidence in the source repositories that somebody was working on Mac support, though it's unclear how far that work got.
Or use the Linux guest as a passthrough to your preferred Linux environment, as suggested by BobHarris. Veertu was free for various guest operating systems and cheap for others, and there are alternatives.
If you're looking for password management and not the disk encryption features if LUKS, there are likely add-on packages that can provide that. Maybe KeePass or Pick?
Application portability across the many UNIX distributions has been a problem going back decades, unfortunately.
Before going with Keepass that has a security holy, you might want to read http://www.engadget.com/2016/06/04/keepass-wont-fix-security-hole-due-to-ads/
LUKS yet?
