GNU_fcrypt

GNU fcrypt

GNU fcrypt

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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.[2][3] In November 2012 Richard Stallman, dubbed fcrypt as an official GNU project, after that the program was called GNU fcrypt.[3]

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

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


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