I cannot seem to find any information on which is better. All I want is a good AES encrypt of my HD with at little overhead as possible. My Gentoo Linux OS natively runs the cryptoloop patch and so can use it without modification. To use loop-AES is a little more effort. Secondly. If I would like to encrypt an existing file system (ext3) can I go about it as such: /dev/hdb1 is filled with data on ext3 fs and is currently not mounted. losetup -e aes256 /dev/loop1 /dev/hdb1 password: passwordhere dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/loop1 bs=64k conv=notrun I am not sure what the dd does, but it seems to do the encryption of the filesystem. Is this correct? Best regards Stian B. Barmen ? IT-sjef Oslo IT-Opplæring AS http://www.it-akademiet.no tlf: +47 23 37 70 22 mob: +47 932 42 123 sentral: +47 23 37 70 00 fax: +47 23 37 70 69 e-mail + messenger: stian.barmen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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