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Re: RFS: aespipe



Hallo Max,

* Max Vozeler <max@hinterhof.net> [2004-03-21 12:24]:
> > >  aespipe can be used for non-destructive in-place encryption
> > >  of existing disk partitions for use with the loop-AES encrypted
> > >  loopback kernel module.
> > 
> > i don't understand why you can't use gpg for these things.
> >
> 
> You can for many tasks use gpg instead. aespipe is most useful in
> combination with loop-AES as it understands the on-disk format of
> those encrypted images and partitions.
> 
> Most people use aespipe to access encrypted disk images when there
> is no kernel support available, or eg. to write encrypted CD images
> that can be transparently mounted.

ah ok, now in understand why it is usefull.
thank you.
regards nico
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