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The answer to this question used to be FreeOTFE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeOTFE); sadly, the project has not been updated for three years and its website (http://www.freeotfe.org) is no longer online.
Is there any software available now that can be used to access LUKS/dm-crypt volumes from Windows, now that FreeOTFE is no longer maintained/available?
Mark Raymond
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LibreCrypt (formerly DoxBox, itself formerly FreeOTFE) offers LUKS-compatible disk encryption for Windows. It will also open legacy FreeOTFE volumes.
nitrl
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LibreCrypt has unfortunately been abandoned :-( – Chetan Bhargava – 2017-12-01T01:39:44.650
4FreeOTFE -> DoxBox -> LibreCrypt -> is there a 2018 successor? – flith – 2018-03-19T11:04:49.363
@flith, Veracrypt also see https://alternativeto.net/software/doxbox/
– adam – 2018-10-21T03:27:03.213afaik Veracrypt is not compatible with LUKS containers – eadmaster – 2019-12-14T13:16:50.730
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FreeOTFE from 2010, although abandonware, is still available for download from here.
However, while as far as I know it is the only solution of its kind, there were still reports of problems and bugs with this product. Therefore @Kibbee's comment of using in Windows a Linux virtual machine might be the safest way to go.
I don't know of any successors to FreeOTFE.
I remark that Truecrypt is an excellent alternative to LUKS/dm-crypt, available on both Linux and Windows and still under development.
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1DoxBox is the assumed successor of FreeOTFE. – Naftuli Kay – 2015-01-12T04:47:07.983
1VeraCrypt may be considered the sucessor of Truecrypt. – Pedro Polonia – 2017-07-06T13:19:27.347
More details in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_encryption_software
– Pedro Polonia – 2017-07-06T13:19:37.370LibreCrypt is inactive at this day (2017-11-02) – Zulgrib – 2017-11-02T07:55:50.940
@Zulgrib: Truecrypt itself is no longer under development. Its successors are VeraCrypt and CipherShed, as well as numerous other commercial and open-source products. – harrymc – 2017-11-02T09:04:11.303
They do not work the same way even if valid alternative. – Zulgrib – 2017-11-05T14:09:09.600
They're forks of it. – harrymc – 2017-11-05T14:30:58.117
1As of 5-28-14 Truecrypt is no longer under active development. – CountMurphy – 2014-05-30T23:33:05.407
2Yes, it works well. This is the way to go for me. No cluttering Windows with buggy and unstable third-party drivers. Just set up a Linux VM, mount the encrypted volume on a Samba share, then access the contents from the Windows host system. – Martin Hansen – 2015-06-30T11:04:06.337
2Could you use a VM with Linux installed and mount the entire parition in the VM? I know it's not strictly accessing it directly in Windows, but would allow you to access it on an existing computer with Windows installed, to recover the files and put them in a more windows friendly format like TruCrypt. – Kibbee – 2013-08-01T14:12:15.047