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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] loop-AES in test
  • Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:45:58 -0700

Quoting Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT sourcemage.org>:

OK, it's time for announcement :)

2 weeks ago I looked into some article about the encrypting Linux partitions. I solved to try that by myself :)

There are a few ones (listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_encryption_software) we already have, such as dm-crypt/luks, truecrypt, ecryptfs.

Well, two days ago I asked Ladislav about eCryptFS, but it wasn't what I needed. I chose to try some dm-crypt alternative: loop-AES.

During these two days I was chechking the whole system/fixing the stuff/asking people on IRC, and finally it's done! :^) loop-AES is now integrated in test, so feel free to try it (if you're brave enough! ;^) and wanna try something new besides dm-crypt and really need it).

Be careful doing the steps in official README (http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/loop-AES.README) but it's enough to make it finally working/usable.

With loop-AES you can encrypt root partition, swap, the other partitions and automount them (i added some simple script to make it possible)

In a few words, what do you need:
1. disable loop driver in your kernel (it'll be replaced by loop-aes kernel module)
2. update your test grimoire via `scribe update'
3. cast loop-aes and aespipe (to encrypt the partitions on the fly), it'll ask to recompile gnupg (static) and util-linux with loop-aes patch.
4. follow the README @ official website or @ /usr/share/doc/loop-aes
<snip>

Thanks Vlad, I should do this on my work laptop running SMGL, that way it's "secure". :)

-sandalle

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