Hang on - I think I might have got the wrong idea - when Yari says the following in the aesipe readme, is is this meant to imply that loop-aes v.3 + loop-aes-utils must be installed in order to mount the encrypted filesystem as he describes? I think maybe so. 3.4. Example 4 - Adding encryption to existing file system ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Create 65 random encryption keys and encrypt those keys using gpg. Reading from /dev/random may take indefinitely long if kernel's random entropy pool is empty. If that happens, do some other work on some other console (use keyboard, mouse and disks). Use of gpg-encrypted key file depends on encrypted swap. umask 077 head -c 2925 /dev/random | uuencode -m - | head -n 66 | tail -n 65 \ | gpg --symmetric -a >/etc/fskey1.gpg Add loop-AES (v3.0a or later) compatible encryption to 1.44 MB floppy disk: dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=64k | aespipe -K /etc/fskey1.gpg | dd of=/dev/fd0 bs=64k conv=notrunc Encrypted floppy can be mounted and unmounted under Linux like this: mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy -o loop=/dev/loop1,encryption=AES128,gpgkey=/etc/fskey1.gpg umount /floppy Remove encryption from loop-AES encrypted 1.44 MB floppy disk: dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=64k | aespipe -d -K /etc/fskey1.gpg | dd of=/dev/fd0 bs=64k conv=notrunc --- Toby <tobia.conforto@xxxxxxxx> wrote:. > > Loop-aes on the other hand lets you *mount* an > encrypted filesystem ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/