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mhogomchungu / zuluCrypt

zuluCrypt is a front end to cryptsetup and tcplay and it allows easy management of encrypted block devices
https://mhogomchungu.github.io/zuluCrypt
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encrypted file date/time modification on usage / unmount #212

Open BluesBiker opened 6 months ago

BluesBiker commented 6 months ago

One great feature of the original Truecrypt program was that the encrypted file date/time was never modified. At least, the file creation and modification time was 'touched' to its original value at any file modification, so that it was not possible to say you worked on it.

As a privacy concern, it is much easier to identify which is your encrypted file if it one of the latest you opened.

It is a simple but very important update to the program behavior.

mhogomchungu commented 5 months ago

Sorry for a late reply, this behavior can be obtain by setting a mount option.

What file system are you using?, for ext file system, a "noatime" mount option should be used to get the behavior you want.

noatime -  Do not update inode access times on this file system.