Hello everybody who tried to helped me, Thank You very much! It's such a good feeling to see those files again :-) Thanks to Emil (off-list reply) and Rob -- with both of your help I could compile mount, but then it wouldn't mount the encrypted fs; said something about "couldn't lock memory". Just getting the Debian mount package wasn't enough either -- I needed the crypto-modules. The new mount wouldn't work with 2.2.18, so I had to compile an int-patched 2.4.3 kernel. IT WORKED! Thanks to you, Robert, I didn't have to patch&compile util-linux again. Well, thanks again to everyone Christoph - sleepy, but happy Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/