Re: encrypted partition question
Hi Alexander,
you may want to look here for simple step by tep guide on how to
encrypt partitions with luks encryption.
http://www.linuxconfig.org/Partition_Encryption
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 7:53 AM, markus reichelt <ml@mareichelt.de> wrote:
>>On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 08:03:48PM +0200, Maciej Korze? wrote:
>>> Alexander Golovin wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>> 2. Created the cryptographic device mapper: cryptsetup -y
>>>> create crypt /dev/hda6 (entered passphrase twice) [...]
>>>
>>> cryptoloop is not the best choice:
>>> http://mareichelt.de/pub/texts.cryptoloop.php.
>>> :-)
>
> First of all, that's not cryptoloop Alexander is using. It's dm-crypt
> and that's gotten A LOT better since kernels prior to 2.6.10.
>
>
>>it seems that was true for pre 2.6.10. not saying dm-crypt is
>>better than loop-aes, not sure what the status is now
>
> It's mentioned in the text linked.
>
> "By now" dm-crypt is mature enough to handle one's data safely,
> regarding cryptography. From what I read on the dm-crypt mailinglist
> every now and then, I'd still recommend loop-AES over dm-crypt for
> stability and reliability alone. YMMW, of course.
>
> Again, the text linked was/is not meant to diss certain crypto
> implementations but warn about potentially significant flaws of
> current crypto implementations.
>
>
> --
> left blank, right bald
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