lbea@xxxxxxx wrote: > O.k. this worked so far. Now it's all compiled pretty much after the > description in the README file of loop-aes. Now i created a container with > > dd if=/dev/zero of=bea1 bs=60k count=1280 > > as user in a certein directory. > > switched to root and did: > > losetup -e AES256 -T /dev/loop1 ./bea1 > > and got: > > Passwort: > Retype password: > ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Das Argument ist ungültig (invalid argument) > > Thus i'm back to my first problem ... > > What now? In 2002 there was a similar question for cryptoapi on this list. > The answer was that in /proc/crypto the cipher was not found and has to be > installed. Well, /proc/crypto doesn't exist here. It needs something else. Any > idea? loop-AES does not need /proc/crypto. Please post output of the make command that you used to compile loop.o module, as well as outputs of "uname -a", "lsmod", and "ls -l /lib/modules" commands. Regards, Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@xxxxxxxxxx> - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/