"Eloy A. Paris" wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:28:10PM +0300, Jari Ruusu wrote: > > Mainline cryptoloop only does single-key mode, which has been broken. > > Since your root partition is using single-key mode, your setup is also > > broken. Re-encrypting using loop-AES multi-key mode is the way to go. > > You bring up something I have been meaning to ask for a long time, but > keep forgetting: my hard drive is encrypted using single-key mode. What > is the recommended way of re-encrypting using multi-key mode? Does it > require booting with a rescue disk (Knoppix, for example) and using > aespipe? Any pitfalls to look for? 1) Make sure that loop code (loop.o/loop.ko or kernel patch) is from any loop-AES-v2.X version. Module must be copied to /boot/modules-XXXX/ directory, where XXXX is kernel version. 2) Make sure that mount+losetup+swapon programs are from loop-AES-v2.X util-linux patched version, including /bin/mount /bin/umount /sbin/losetup /sbin/swapon and most importantly /boot/losetup 3) Create /boot/rootkey.gpg by running step 9 of README example 7.5. 4) Create new initrd.gz by running steps 10 to 13 of README example 7.5. USEGPGKEY=1 must be set in build-initrd.sh config. 5) Boot from rescue CD-ROM 6) Mount /boot partition as /mnt, step 18 of README example 7.5. 7) Run root partition data through two copies of aespipe. First one decrypts your single-key encrypted data, and second one encrypts in multi-key mode. aespipe version must be aespipe-v2.2a or newer. dd if=/dev/hda2 bs=64k \ | /mnt/aespipe -d -e AES128 -T -S `cat /mnt/seed.txt` -C 100 \ | /mnt/aespipe -e AES128 -K /mnt/rootkey.gpg -G / -w 120 \ | dd of=/dev/hda2 bs=64k conv=notrunc Above assumes that /dev/hda1 is /boot partition and /dev/hda2 is root partition. First aespipe command line parameters must be same that you used to encrypt, but with -d option added. Note that there is 120 second delay before second aespipe asks for a password (it is that "-w 120" option). 8) Clean up by running step 20 of README example 7.5. Above README file example 7.5. refers to loop-AES-v2.1b version. -- Jari Ruusu 1024R/3A220F51 5B 4B F9 BB D3 3F 52 E9 DB 1D EB E3 24 0E A9 DD - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/