[Announce] Helper script for creating loop-aes ou cryptoapi containers

[Michel Bouissou <michel@bouissou.net>]

Hello,

I've written a little shell-script that greatly facilitates creation of 
containers hosting a filesystem encrypted with loop-aes or cryptoapi/kerneli.

This script can be downloaded from:
https://www.bouissou.net/wws/d_read/open-crypto/linux-crypto/mkcryptfs.gz

For using it, you of course need to have loop-aes or cryptoapi/kerneli 
already installed on your system.

Installation:

- Copy mkcryptfs.gz in a directory of your choice, i.e. /usr/local/bin

- Décompress:
root# gunzip mkcryptfs.gz

- Set correct owner and rights:
root# chown root: mkcryptfs
root# chmod 755 mkcryptfs

- Before executing the script, you need to edit it for checking a couple of 
parameters depending upon your system config, i.e. choose whether to use 
loop-aes or cryptoapi/kerneli.

Then, just run:

mkcryptfs help


I'd be very interested in your comments and suggestions.

Regards.

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Michel Bouissou <michel@bouissou.net> OpenPGP ID 0x5C2BEE8F
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