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TrueCrypt alternative with API

I am searching for a TrueCrypt alternative that has an API to programmatically access the files. Does anyone know a solution?

The API should support the listing, creating, changing and deleting of files.

Solution

  • Diskcryptor does not have an API, but it is GPL.

    If I may, I beleive what you are asking for is for a abstract file system library. I understand that you want to load a TrueCrypt or similar container and list its content. When it is opened, such a container is just raw bytes reprenting sectors. On top the the encryption, such an API would see only raw sectors and it would have to make sense of them with a corresponding sector level api.

    You can see the problem in another way. How would you write a program, such as zip, that can present such information on a zip file, a very common container if you will.

    TrueCrypt container compared to a zip file

    So the API you are looking for would need to acheive two things :

    1. Understand the container's encryption scheme (possibly multiple version of it)
    2. Understand the sector format of the embeeded filesystem
    3. Provide a user friendly API.

    I have asked myself the same questions a while ago, scoured the net for answers, and this answer is the sum of what I have found so far. I hope you find it a valid answer, even if its not actionable.

    Not yet, anyways ;)