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http://alonbl.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Gentoo/Linux_Disk_Encryption_Using_LoopAES_And_SmartCards |
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On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> I'm trying to set up USB-key-encryption for use with a laptop. I'm |
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> running mdev instead of udev on the laptop, so lvm doesn't work. I did |
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> manage to create /dev/mapper/control by running "dmsetup mknodes" |
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> manually, but still got error messages about being unable to initialize |
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> the encryption backend. |
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> Moving on to using loop-aes, I emerged sys-fs/loop-aes-3.7a and used |
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> the "loop-aes" variant commands whilst following the the only docs that |
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> I could find, namely http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/loop-AES.README |
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> I ran into problems when trying to mount the loop device. Here's what |
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> happens (passphrase is properly entered)... |
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> [aa1][root][~] loop-aes-losetup -F /dev/loop0 |
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> Password: |
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> ioctl: LOOP_MULTI_KEY_SETUP_V3: Invalid argument |
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> Anybody have any ideas? |
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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