Comment 4 for bug 217138

I am also marking for Kubuntu and Netbook Edition.

After installed, cryptsetup occupies 0.5 MB.

It is very inconvenient not to be able to mount pendrives that have previously been encrypted with the native, standard, Ubuntu-supported encryption scheme.

Sometimes there is simply nobody with the admin password around and in any case some people may find it strange that you ask them to type "the" password just to see your files.

In my opinion, it should be on the LiveCD for recovery purposes and installed by default for the above reason.