Hi, Since I am realy quite new to crypto stuff....I'll just tell you what I am trying to do....if you could point out bad points or give hints they would be greatly appreciated. To make my system-data totally robbery safe: I'd like to put a loopback-crypto with reiserfs on all my partitions except /boot (so on /, /usr, /home etc.). The encryption I wish to use is the aes (the winner of that competition). This is my little dream: After starting my computer, running lilo and selecting my kernel (lying on /boot the kernel can be read) a initial ramdisk is loaded...containing losetup, mount and a script I will write. This script will ask for the password to decrypt the partitions, and will then mount all my partitions with this passoword, meaning I enter _one_ password _once_. When the partitions are mounted (to /mnt and sub) I chroot into my new system and continue booting. Since with swap it doesnt seem to be possible to encrypt it, I am planning on not using a swap partition at all. Where do you see problems ? Ideas of problems I have: the script: is it possible to "enter" the password with a script ? around the script: where do I put it (so the initial ram disk will load it ?? how will I make the system continue to boot normaly when finished ? does linux work with out swap (I got 512 MB RAM) ? is it safe ?? Thanks for reading (and possibly helping) Peter -- Reality is a cop-out for people who can't handle drugs. - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
