Re: partman-crypto
Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> writes:
> * Max Vozeler <max@decl.org> [2005-08-05 02:43]:
>> as you might know, I've been hacking on support for block device
>> encryption in partman lately, dubbed partman-crypto. This work has
>> proceeded nicely and the most basic functionality is available now.
>> That is, you can use a current snapshot to install[1] Debian onto
>> loop-AES encrypted partitions.
>
> Thanks for working on this. Just a quick question: what's the
> advantage of loop-AES over dm-crypt? Also, without having looked at
> your code, do you think your package is flexible enough to allow for
> different encryption methods?
Would be great to use dm-crypt since, IIRC, loop-crypto is almost deprecated.
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