Full Disclosure: Re: harddisk encryption

[Andrew Farmer <andfarm () teknovis com>]

On 20 Jan 2005, at 17:41, dk wrote:
> dk wrote:
> > Indeed, crypto, sans re viewable source, is questionable if for no 
> > other reason. Am I (or you) personally capable of reviewing all that 
> > source? Maybe, maybe not. But it offers that opportunity to a 
> > community that I can become familiar with to make and informed 
> > decision.
> Forgot to mention:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/loop-aes/
>
> ...if you ever decide to use Linux as a host OS.
> No kernel patches required (optional).
> Just the stipulation of module loading & the internal LOOP driver 
> (loop.c) to be a module. So a Kernel recompile is necessary if this is 
> not set already and a patch-n-recompile of some net-utils files 
> {mount,umount,losetup & swapon)
> Very nice, very flexible, well maintained.
http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/

(Device-mapper crypto target - significantly easier to use than 
loopback, supported in kernels >= 2.6.4, and uses cryptoAPI. You can 
even use it for swap!)

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