> AFAIK the patched versions have some options you need to use the full power > of loop-AES. You might want to take a look at loop-aes-utils that has > patched versions of mount/umount/losetup/swapon. > > Greetings, > Mike Thanx for your answers, anyway, I keep on trying ........... Can I interpret that both of you have crypto-root-fs under debian using loop-aes and made it work with the README.txt from Jari Ruusu ? I am looking for existing, real-life-heterosexual-people who made THEIR OWN way of using loop-aes>128 as root-fs under a main linux-distro on their own computers. Until now I only found anything else. P.S.: Before I could start with any crypto-work my testsystem just went down from it's own problems after a standard-update, unable to start again. That's the state we are into ...... Regards, Reverend - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/