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Last updated: 2018-09-26

Update: I now package veracrypt in an rpm on my copr. So use:

dnf copr enable bgstack15/stackrpms
dnf install veracrypt

In these post- TrueCrypt days, I migrated to VeraCrypt. For a very long time now, I have been maintaining an encrypted file container on a flash drive on my keychain. Additionally, I keep various binaries to help open it, like on Windows or GNU/Linux, should I ever need emergency access to my files when not on one of my regular machines. I'm not NSA-proof, but I do intend to keep my private files out of the view of the general public or any random person who might find a lost flash drive. So about VeraCrypt, A user can download the latest binary packages, even for GNU/Linux, from the offical downloads page. And the source code is on gitlab at https://gitlab.com/veracrypt/VeraCrypt. But nobody I could find on the Internet has a Fedora rpm package for it. Well, I present to you now my Veracrypt rpm project. It took me a while to figure out the different releases of VeraCrypt don't compile on Fedora 27 for various bug-related reasons. But the freshest commit version does, so this rpm is generated from the beta upstream point in time where I saved a copy of the repo. The normal way to compile any of my rpms is to use the usr/share/${package}/build/pack script. It will download sources, prepare the file list in the spec, and perform the rpmbuild.