Re: Creating dm-crypt images through a pipe

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On 23.01.2007 18:16:41, jean-christophe.haessig@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > # touch /cd.iso
> > # losetup /dev/loop/0 /cd.iso
> > # echo 0 $(( 680*1024*1024/512 )) crypt aes-cbc-plain 0123456789abcdef 0
> > /dev/loop/0 0 | dmsetup create encrypted_cd
> > # mkisofs ... > /dev/mapper/encrypted_cd
> >
> > Then you have an iso file with an encrypted ISO9660 filesystem. You might
> > have to tweak a bit, and maybe it doesn't even work because of the way
> > mkisofs works.
> 
> Yeah, but you still need some temporary space to hold the /cd.iso image.
> No way to burn directly. In fact I want to do this with a tape drive, ie
> pipe directly the output of tar/mkisofs through the encryption program and
> then on tape. I just made my question more generic, so I only brought up the
> case of cd recorders, for which the problem still holds.

I'm not familiar with tape drives, but can't you just create a mapping over
the tape device and do this:

	# tar cfvj /dev/mapper/tape_encrypted /backmeup/

Not meaning to discourage you from writing a aespipe for dmcrypt, just
asking.


Greetings,
	Benjamin
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