There really is a lot of information about crypto in Linux - enough to utterly confuse me. My goal: being able to create a container file of arbitrary size crypted with AES which I can mount like any other disk/partition and so on. Problem: with only 1 year Linux experience I tend to describe myself as a newbie. I can aplly a patch to kernel src, ok. I can create a container file, create a filesystem on it and mount it, ok. As far as I understand, I need: -the kernel patch providing me with AES support -a patched version of util-linux Is that it? Or am I missing something? Is there a newbie-friendly HOWTO? The ones I found are rather for the more sophisticated users. Dex - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
