"Stian B. Barmen" wrote: > 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. loop-AES automatically uses optimized assembler implementation of AES cipher on modern x86 boxes, and it is about twice as fast as the C implementation in cryptoapi+cryptoloop. > 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? Yes it is correct, but you may want to use seeded password for better security. Regards, Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@xxxxxxxxxx> - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
