Re: loop-AES password change?

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Iain wrote:
> I was just trying to work out the best way to setup loop AES with a changeable
> password. I.e. Similar behaviour to PGPDisk. I assume the way it works is
> that your password is used to encrypt the session key and the session key is
> what is actually used to encrypt the data. Therefore you can change the
> password without having to re-encrypt the whole device.
> 
> >From what I have read it seems that the right way to do this with loop-AES is
> to use a GPG key to encrypt the "session key". Is this correct? Is there any
> more info/examples?

Example 5 in loop-AES' README file shows how to use GnuPG encrypted
filesystem key.

Regards,
Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>

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