Re: [newbie] overviewing the chaos

[markus reichelt <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Jan LÃhr <jluehr@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Due to google, I found how to set up every single utility, but I haven't found 
> any site comparing theses approaches, analysing 'em (from a scientific point 
> of view) and give some advice for newbies.

just use loop-aes, and forget about mainline cryptoloop and dm-crypt.

Why Mainline Cryptoloop Should Not Be Used
http://mareichelt.de/pub/texts.cryptoloop.php

still needs an update, but you should be able to get the picture ;)


> On the other hand I want to use some mountable encryption for portable storage 
> devices as well. For instance I have a USB-Stick /DVD-RAM /-RW with some 
> enclosed data I want to access on different systems.  (All systems are 
> considered to be trusted).  The data should be able to be accessed form 
> userland as well as kernelland based tools. I want to be able to mount it on 
> some systems - on other systems userland access is necessary because I cannot 
> use the kernel I want. Being able to gain access to my data with OpenBSD, 
> Solaris or MacOS would also be nice. 

don't know about these OSes, but in order to work loop-aes requires that
kernel loopback support is turned off. with that being so, loop-aes is
ideal for such cases.


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