> If you want to take a look at loop-aes I suggest > you take KNOPPIX which features loop-aes out of the > box. Or try grml.org for testing purpose (speed, usability,...) It supports dmcrypt, loop-aes and truecrypt. > Loop-aes is optimized for amd64. Furthermore it is > capable of encrypting the whole system which means > you start the PC from removable USB media. No > partition table and no plain text boot sector > remain. you can do this all with dmcrypt too ... There is assembler-optimized code (AES_i586, aes_x86_64, twofish_i586,...) and you don't need a partition table or something like this. Just write your dm-crypt table by hand instead of using luks for key management,... - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/