January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
8h 45m
English
Content preview from Mastering Linux Security and Hardening
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Getting and installing VeraCrypt
The Linux version of VeraCrypt comes as a set of universal installer scripts that should work on any Linux distribution. Once you extract the .tar.bz2 archive file, you'll see two scripts for GUI installation, and two for console-mode installation. One of each of those is for 32-bit Linux, and one of each is for 64-bit Linux:
donnie@linux-0ro8:~/Downloads> ls -l vera*-r-xr-xr-x 1 donnie users 2976573 Jul 9 05:10 veracrypt-1.21-setup-console-x64-r-xr-xr-x 1 donnie users 2967950 Jul 9 05:14 veracrypt-1.21-setup-console-x86-r-xr-xr-x 1 donnie users 4383555 Jul 9 05:08 veracrypt-1.21-setup-gui-x64-r-xr-xr-x 1 donnie users 4243305 Jul 9 05:13 veracrypt-1.21-setup-gui-x86-rw-r--r-- 1 donnie users 14614830 Oct 31 ...