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The stable version 2.1-0 of ScramDisk for Linux has been released. It now supports TrueCrypt 7 containers. Moreover, some bugs have been fixed.

Packages for Debian 5.0 and 6.0, Fedora 14, SUSE 11.3 and Ubuntu 10.04, and 10.10 are provided for i386 and AMD64 architectures.

The stable version 2.0-0 of ScramDisk for Linux has been released. It now supports TrueCrypt 5 and 6 containers. The new features of handling partitioned containers or whole partitioned hard disks and of creating a swap space within a container and using such an encrypted swap space have been added. Moreover, some bugs have been fixed.

Packages for CentOS 5.3, Debian 3.1, 4.0 and 5.0, Fedora 10, Mandriva 2009, SUSE 11.0 and 11.1 and Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04 are provided for i386 and AMD64 architectures.

The stable version 1.3-0 of ScramDisk for Linux has been released. It has the new functionality of a container timeout. If activated on mounting a container, this container will be unmounted after it has been inactive for the configured time. The NTFS filesystem is now supported by ScramDisk for Linux. Moreover, some bugs have been fixed.

Packages for CentOS 5, Debian 3.1 and 4.0, Fedora 7, 8 and 9, Mandriva 2008.0, SuSE 10.2 and 10.3 and Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10 and 8.04 are provided for i386 and AMD64 architectures.

The stable version 1.2-0 of ScramDisk for Linux has been released. It has the new functionality of reformatting containers from ScramDisk to TrueCrypt format. The documentation was, moreover, extended to include some technical background on the container format. And, finally, six bugs have been fixed.

Packages for CentOS 5, Debian 3.1 and 4.0, Fedora Core6, 7 and 8, SuSE 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3 and Ubuntu 6.06, 6.10, 7.04 and 7.10 are provided for i386 and AMD64 architectures.

The stable version 1.1-0 of ScramDisk for Linux has been released. It has reworked the kernel driver and now handles input and output requests in separate kernel threads for each container. Thereby, input/output errors are fixed which occasionally occured in previous versions under heavy load. Moreover, handling of large containers of 2 GB and above has been fixed. Finally, the passphrase input lines for scramdisk containers are now restricted to 39 characters each. This was 40 characters previously. By this change full compatibility with the windows scramdisk v3.01r3c is achieved.... read more

The stable version 1.0-2 of ScramDisk for Linux has been released. It fixes two bugs and solves a small feature request. The bugs concern mounting of ext3 file systems with option 'auto' and unmounting from kernel if file system mount failed. The new feature disables access right checks on block devices to be mounted as containers.

ScramDisk for Linux 1.0-2 opens and creates TrueCrypt containers as well as ScramDisk containers. The supported format of TrueCrypt containers is that of TrueCrypt version 4.1 or later using the LRW mode. Moreover, ScramDisk 1.0-2 can encrypt devices such as partitions on a hard disk or storage media entirely without indirection by a container file. ... read more

The stable version 1.0-1 of ScramDisk for Linux has been released. It fixes two vulnerabilities by which a normal user could obtain root privileges. Now, for normal users, containers are mounted in a way such that the execution of programs with setuid-bit from within the container is inhibited. Moreover, version 1.0-1 forbids mounting a container on a mount point to which the user has no write access. This is so, because otherwise a normal user could mount his container over a system directory and thereby replace system files with his own ones. We advise every user of SD4L to update to version 1.0-1.... read more

The stable version 1.0-0 of ScramDisk for Linux has been released. It now opens and creates TrueCrypt containers as well as ScramDisk containers. The supported format of TrueCrypt containers is that of TrueCrypt version 4.1 or later using the LRW mode. Moreover, ScramDisk 1.0-0 can encrypt devices such as partitions on a hard disk or storage media entirely without indirection by a container file.
Packages for Debian 3.1 (Sarge), Ubuntu 6.06 and 6.10, Fedora Core5 and Core6 and SUSE 9.3, 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 are provided for i386 and AMD64 architectures.

Scramdisk for Linux 0.9-1 has been released.
It is a bugfix release which now builds on kernels
up to 2.6.17. Packages for Debian 3.1 (kernel
2.6.8 and 2.4.27), Ubuntu 6.06, Fedora Core5 and
SuSE 9.3, 10.0 and 10.1 are provided. Ubuntu,
Fedora and SuSE packages are available as well
for the AMD64 as for i386 architecture.