Encrypting disck with loopback device

crash88 · 05-21-2006, 12:49 PM

I've read of several ways to do this and was wondering what the best one is. There's a lot of dead links which ticks me off because the tcfs looked like good. I was also wondering if it worked with reiserfs?

imagineers7 · 05-22-2006, 07:29 AM

Hello,

It works with reiserfs also.
But sysem may become slow if you are using encryption and loopback interface on a partition to be used for high traffic

Bye

sin · 05-22-2006, 10:30 AM

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Cryptoloop-HOWTO/

crash88 · 05-22-2006, 11:02 AM

That's exactly what I needed. Thanks

Storm16 · 05-22-2006, 03:03 PM

Before you use cryptoloop, you might want to look at this link. It is a write up of the weaknesses in cryptoloop as well as dm-crypt. The article (which was originally penned in 2004, but was updated last month) states that loop-aes is a better, stronger method of encrypting your drives. And if you are going to go through the effort of encrypting, you probably want the best you can get.

--Storm