On 06/10/2006 Frederico Madeira wrote: > How can i encrypt a partition using a key-file and a pass-phrase ?? you could use any method to encrypt a key. openssl and gnupg are only two possibilities. > When try mount this partition, is needed the pass-phrase and the key-file > in the dir specified on creation of encrypted volume. > > My objective is put in an pendriver a key-file, so every time that i like > to mount that partition i need to insert that pendriver with key-file. > > How can i generate a key-file use gpg ?? create a key, for example this way: $ dd if=/dev/random of=keyfile bs=1k count=50 then use this 'keyfile' for disk encryption to encrypt the keyfile, you could use: $ gpg -o keyfile.gpg -r <YOUR_GPG_ID> --encrypt keyfile then purge keyfile, and keep keyfile.gpg. everytime you want to start cryptsetup, you'll firest have to decrypt keyfile.gpg. ... jonas --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx
