Michael Zhu wrote: > Is Loop-AES a kind of full-disk encryption? Loop-AES encrypts devices. You can encrypt full device /dev/hda using loop-AES, but usually it is used to encrypt partitions like /dev/hda4 > I mean Loop-AES is a sector by sector partition based encryption or not? It is sector by sector encryption. > I read the README about the Loop-AES. It says that Loop-AES will create a > boot partition and this boot partition is unencrypted. What kind of > information contained in this small boot partition? The Linux kernel image > or just some kind of boot records? Loop-AES will encrypt the entire > operation system including all the system files? Kernel needs to be loaded from some unencrypted device. Usually bootloader and kernel are in /boot but sometimes they are loaded from CD-ROM or USB-stick. -- 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/
