Jean-Luc Cooke wrote: > I got confused with some other linux crypto projects I was > researching. loopaes nor cryptoloop have seperate user and fskeys. You can setup loop-AES to use separate user and fskey. Take a look at example 5 in loop-AES' README file. > Could the maintainers please comment on the design rational behind > this? And Jari as well one the design rational behind not hashing the > user password? Loop-AES can use unhashed password, but that is for backward compatibility only, and is not recommended for new setups. All examples in the loop-AES' README use hashed passwords. RTFM. Regards, Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/