[Discuss] TrueCrypt EOL, what's next?

[Rich Braun]

Only in the past few months did I start contemplating full-disk encryption for
my home systems, but never really got around to it.  I was thinking if I could
get TrueCrypt to come up automatically at boot, somehow getting its keys from
an internal URL on my home LAN, I could make the systems pretty secure against
physical compromise (burglary, etc).

Cryptsetup is a probably-ok second choice, its main advantage being that it's
part of most any stock distro, but it'd require even more tooling to automate
at system restart.

Today's news that TrueCrypt is effectively end-of-lifed makes me wonder:  is
there any such thing as a good open-source tool for this use case (protecting
one or more home/soho servers from physical theft) or the other use case of
emailing sensitive financial or other data that one would typically put into a
zipfile/tarball?

At work I've been validating a commercial tool for this purpose from
Vormetric, but it's way expensive & overkill for the soho use cases.

-rich