Part_2: I googled about 7 hours and had the aespipe- and loop-AES-READMEs to find the right code for mounting my hda3 unter knoppix-4.x, which should be multi-key-able. To make it short: I did not find the right sequence anywhere. What is going on ??????????? Why the talking about Knoppix-in-case-of-crisis when nobody knows the complicated sequence ?- I tried (under Knoppix) mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /mnt -o loop=/dev/loop0,encryption=AES256,gpgkey=/mnt/hda1/rootkey.gpg reaction: mount wrong fs type, bad option, bad .............. This code is hacked in Terminal as one row. hda1 ist the unencrypted /boot-partition and I can see the rootkey.gpg under /mnt/hda1. I used loop0 in /etc/fstab for hda3 (which is / ("root")) and in the build-initrd.sh (where it is loop5 by default). After sleeping, I will make a dm-crypt-attempt on a 4-GB-Stick.- If that had success, no more loop-aes for me. Good night, Reverend - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/