GNU fcrypt

{{Short description|Disk encryption software project}} {{Disputed|date=March 2013}} {{Infobox software | name = GNU fcrypt | screenshot = | caption = | developer = Fabio Gonzalez<ref name=gnu_contrib>[https://www.gnu.org/people/people.html#f GNU's Who] - List of GNU Contributors</ref><ref name=gnu_spotlight>{{Cite web |title=GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry (November 2012) |url=https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnu-spotlight-with-karl-berry-november-2012 |website=Free Software Foundation |date= Dec 3, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115020702/https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnu-spotlight-with-karl-berry-november-2012 |archive-date= Jan 15, 2023}}</ref> | latest_release_version = | latest_release_date = | latest_preview_version = | latest_preview_date = | operating_system = Linux, GNU/Hurd | platform = | genre = Disk encryption software<ref name=fcrypt_page>{{cite web |url=https://www.gnu.org/software/fcrypt |title=Index of /software/fcrypt |website=GNU}}</ref> | license = GNU GPL | website = https://www.gnu.org/software/fcrypt }} '''GNU fcrypt''' was a disk encryption software project intended to offer multiple hidden partitions, "on the fly encryption" (automatic and transparent encryption), and "plausible deniability".<ref name=fcrypt_page /> The now disbanded project was part of the GNU project.<ref name=gnu_spotlight /><ref name=fcrypt_page /> In November 2012 Richard Stallman, dubbed fcrypt as an official GNU project, after that the program was called GNU fcrypt.<ref name=fcrypt_page />

The software's encryption was intended to prove resistant to being cracked by quantum computers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=GNU fcrypt manual |url=https://www.gnu.org/software/fcrypt/manual/fcrypt.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606114051/https://www.gnu.org/software/fcrypt/manual/fcrypt.html |archive-date=Jun 6, 2013 |website=GNU}}</ref>

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