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> I think I remember reading about LUKS supporting TrueCrypt's container format - but that, of course, only works on Linux.

"LUKS" stands for "linux unified key setup" and it is an "on-disk format" and its reference implementation is found in cryptsetup[1]

LUKS on-disk format is supported in windows through doxbox[2]

cryptsetup also supports TrueCrypt,the on-disk format.

people usually say "LUKS" when they mean cryptsetup as it makes no difference to them but i think its important to know the difference.

[1] https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/Specification

[2] https://github.com/t-d-k/doxbox



Thank you very much for clearing that up!




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