Veracrypt for Raspbian

[R0cket]

Hi as truecrypt is discontinued.

Does anyone know how to compile Veracrypt for Raspbian?

[wared-fr]

Hi,

I wrote a how to article about VeraCrypt on the Raspberry Pi : http://howto.wared.fr/raspberry-pi-arch ... veracrypt/.

You need ArchLinux ARM but i'm sure that it would be adaptable to other distributions.

I hope that it can help

Wared

[dhsc19]

I just successfully compiled Veracrypt 1.23 on Raspbian Stretch. Wanted to share this in case it might be helpful to someone else.

Download the UNIX tar bzip2 source from https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Downloads.html

The dependencies to install:

sudo apt install make gcc pkg-config libwxgtk3.0 libfuse-dev

Extract the source files and go into the VeraCrypt_1.23/src directory

Run:

sudo make

Near the end of the make process there should be some "linking veracrypt" message. Following that I got some GTK related failure message, but when I checked inside the VeraCrypt_1.23/src/Main directory the veracrypt binary was there and I was able to run it from the command line. It seems that there is always some GTK failure message that shows up when running from command line, but I was able to successfully mount my encrypted files.

The "make install" does not work, so I manually copied the veracrypt binary to the /usr/local/bin directory.

The GUI is working, too. But, I found that having the GUI do the administrative elevation would fail. So, I start it with "sudo veracrypt" and I was able to mount successfully through the GUI.

[DirkS]

Run:

sudo make

[snip]

The "make install" does not work, so I manually copied the veracrypt binary to the /usr/local/bin directory.

The normal procedure is to run

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make

to compile/link etc your source. That normally does not need admin permissions.
To move it to the end location you use

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sudo make install

because you *do* need these additional rights.

[antoiner]

thank you for all those previous posts. I have been able to follow your hint and to compile a working version of veracrypt on a Raspberry pi 3 B+ today!

[drmullins]

According to an old post mounting [ a Veracrypt volume ] takes forever (!):

https://randomgooby.wordpress.com/2015/ ... erry-pi-2/

I wonder if any of you who have compiled possibly more recent versions of Veracrypt can advise how long does it take to mount a container on a Raspberry Pi 3 B or B+ ?

Thanks

[echmain]

If I recall...

Veracrypt is based off Truecrypt. And Truecrypt did not store the encryption algorithm used when creating the container.

Because of that, when you attempt to open a container it must try each one of its algorithms until the correct one is found.

FWIW, even on my Core i7 there’s a noticeable delay when opening a Veracrypt container.

[drmullins]

Thanks for thoughts

I compiled Veracrypt 1.23 and tried it

Veracrypt is easier to compile than Truecrypt 7.1a which I have been using on Pi B2 B3 and B3+ for last 3.5 years on a daily basis.

Truecrypt containers open very quickly

The first Veracrypt container that I created took more than 2 minutes to open !

After a bit of investigation I found that Veracrypt has a 'new' PIM parameter (Personal Iterations Multiplier ) whose value can be set to trade-off level of security against speed of opening, I created a new container with a setting of PIM=1 and this opened in about 5 seconds which I think is just about acceptable.

I think the recommendation is that a low PIM value is safe provided that a long password eg 20 characters is used.

[rbscebu]

I am trying to install VeraCrypt with a GUI on my RPi4B 4GB using Raspian Buster. I downloaded VeraCrypt 1.24 Source (UNIX tar bzip2) into my Downloads directory, extracted the files to ~/Downloads/VeraCrypt_1.24 and installed dependencies with:

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sudo apt install make gcc pkg-config libwxgtk3.0 libfuse-dev

I then cd to ~/Downloads/VeraCrypt_1.24/src and complied VeraCrypt using:

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sudo make

During the compiling process I received warnings about items being deprecated but everything appeared to progress with the last message reading:

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Linking veracrypt

Still in ~/Downloads/VeraCrypt_1.24/src I tried:

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sudo make install

and got the following errors:

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mkdir: missing operand
Try 'mkdir --help' for more information.
make[1]: *** [Main.make:257: install] Error 1
make: ** [Makefile:485: install] Error 2

Where do I go from here?

[B.Goode]

See https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... 5#p1426321

The bit where it says "make install" does not work...

[rbscebu]

See https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... 5#p1426321

The bit where it says "make install" does not work...

Yes, I read that-

The "make install" does not work, so I manually copied the veracrypt binary to the /usr/local/bin directory.

The GUI is working, too. But, I found that having the GUI do the administrative elevation would fail. So, I start it with "sudo veracrypt" and I was able to mount successfully through the GUI.

What file(s) is/are "the veracrypt binary"?

After I copy "the veracrypt binary" to /usr/local/bin/ how do I get the GUI to work?

[unixlunix]

What file(s) is/are "the veracrypt binary"?

~/Downloads/[extracted veracrypt folder]/src/Setup/Linux/usr/bin

After I copy "the veracrypt binary" to /usr/local/bin/ how do I get the GUI to work?

Just start in LXTerminal with: veracrypt

[rbscebu]

Thank you unixlunix.

I copied my ~/Downloads/VeraCrypt_1.24/ directory with all the extracted files to /usr/local/bin/. I then used Menu>Preferences>Main Menu Editor>System Tools>New Item to make an entry in System Tools to start Veracrypt via the main menu. For this entry I used the command:

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/usr/local/bin/VeraCrypt_1.24/src/Setup/Linux/usr/bin/veracrypt

I appears to me to be a rather messy way to do it. I would have preferred to have the relevant VedraCrypt files located somewhere such that the main menu entry command only had to be:

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veracrypt

At least what I have now is working for me.