Re: What I want to do -doable ?

[Peter Kirk <pwk.linuxfan@gmx.de>]

On Donnerstag, 11. Juli 2002 17:39 Jari Ruusu wrote:
> Peter Kirk wrote:
> > To make my system-data totally robbery safe:
[...]
> > encrypt it, I am  planning on not using a swap partition at all.
>
> Loop-AES does all of that, including encrypted swap (by adding
> loop=/dev/loop6,encryption=AES128 options to swap entries of your
> /etc/fstab file). It even includes a configurable script to create a
> complete fully-working initrd for you. Just follow instructions in the
> README file and you have encrypted-everything-except-/boot system.
>
> You can find latest version here:
There was a HowTo I read (from 2000 or sth),
which explained how to patch loopback driver, util-linux, the Kernel, 
integrate crypto-api.
At this moment I _can_ use losetup to create a encrypted file-system (with 
aes) on a partition (or a file). Do I realy have to install this Loop-AES ? 
Why ? Is it only possible to encrypt swap with Loop-AES instead of with my 
crypto-loopback ?

My biggest problem till now is: I`d like to mount all my partitions with the 
same password, which I only want to enter once...but losetup doesnt seem to 
provide an option for the password !


Peter

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