adamesss / cryptobox

A script to create, mount and umount LUKS encrypted disk image files.

Cryptobox

A wrapper script for cryptsetup that makes it easy to create, mount and unmount encrypted image files using LUKS.

Requirements

• cryptsetup: Userspace setup tool for transparent encryption of block devices using.
• util-linux: Miscellaneous system utilities for Linux, required for losetup and mkfs.

Usage

• cryptobox: displays the list of commands
• cryptobox c filename.img filesystem size-in-mb: creates an image file with a given filesystem and size in megabytes.
  • eg: cryptobox c myimg.img ext4 128
• cryptobox m filename.img /mount/point: mounts a given image file on a given directory.
  • eg: cryptobox m myimg.img /mnt/cryptoimg
• cryptobox u /mount/point: unmounts an image file from a given directory.
  • eg: cryptobox u /mnt/cryptoimg

Credits

Written by Kevin MacMartin: GitHub Projects | Arch Linux AUR Packages

License

This script is open source and licensed under the GPLv3.