On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:14:41PM +0200, Milan Broz wrote: > If you want something simple, use LUKS. cryptsetup > and dmcrypt is in all distributions by default. > Truecrypt uses dmcrypt by default as backend as well. Looking around a bit, it appears that cryptsetup is in the ubuntu server set up disk. > Of course, if you want use loop-aes, you have to > patch all utilities and kernel, it is not so complicated. I'm not wedded to it... as I noted I have been out of the loop, crypt or otherwise, for half a decade. > (cryptsetup can run loop-aes compatible mode as well and > can allocate loop device as well. But it is your > choice what encryption and utility to use to use > of course.) > > For default losetup from util-linux, encryption option > is in fact deprecated in favor to cryptsetup. Okay. Now do cryptsetup and the others work in a pretty standard way? ie, put them in your /etc/fstab and just feed them a password when you want to mount? Or if it is a loopback image, you just do the usual mount -o loop file /mnt ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
