Hi,

I got already a functioning encrypted filesystem as a loopback device with aes-256 encryption. The thing is that I probably don't remember all steps of configuring it.
On another machine than mine I compiled the same kernel as before (2.6.11.7) with Cryptoloop device and Loopback device support (compiled in the kernel not module) and of course with aes-256. But when I tried the mount the encrypted file it asks for the password but then I got an error of "ioctl". I'm not in front of my computer right now so I can't include the error completely - sorry though.
Am I missing anything (a package or another setting in kernel) ?

I'm using Debian Sarge distro.

Thanks!


Zahoo

look at man mount (search for loop section)
and man losetup

I read both of those and got an encrypted FS going w/o problems.