-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jan LÃhr <jluehr@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Due to google, I found how to set up every single utility, but I haven't found > any site comparing theses approaches, analysing 'em (from a scientific point > of view) and give some advice for newbies. just use loop-aes, and forget about mainline cryptoloop and dm-crypt. Why Mainline Cryptoloop Should Not Be Used http://mareichelt.de/pub/texts.cryptoloop.php still needs an update, but you should be able to get the picture ;) > On the other hand I want to use some mountable encryption for portable storage > devices as well. For instance I have a USB-Stick /DVD-RAM /-RW with some > enclosed data I want to access on different systems. (All systems are > considered to be trusted). The data should be able to be accessed form > userland as well as kernelland based tools. I want to be able to mount it on > some systems - on other systems userland access is necessary because I cannot > use the kernel I want. Being able to gain access to my data with OpenBSD, > Solaris or MacOS would also be nice. don't know about these OSes, but in order to work loop-aes requires that kernel loopback support is turned off. with that being so, loop-aes is ideal for such cases. - -- Bastard Administrator in $hell -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBfmCVLMyTO8Kj/uQRAompAJ9qqAPzRhU8yaw0BK8iPbOindZyagCePbV1 Gabchxn7gRHUcj6vPBIia+E= =teeO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
