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Pupeno wrote: |
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>On Thursday 28 July 2005 02:54, Richard Fish wrote: |
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>>Pupeno wrote: |
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>>>>I use the dm-crypt from the kernel.... |
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>>>I've read that it is unsecure and I also read that it is not yet vory well |
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>>>suported. |
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>>Dm-crypt is fairly well supported, since it is in the kernel, but I find |
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>>it to be harder to setup and less 'flexible' than loop-AES (the changing |
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>>passphrase thing, for example). |
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>I know it is in the kernes, but I've read that there weren't good userland |
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>tool to work with dm-crypt. Maybe that has changed and Gentoo's userland |
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>tools can work with dm-crypt, what's the status of that ? |
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Personally, I find cryptsetup/dm-crypt to be much more difficult to use |
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than losetup/mount. With loop-AES, I have my fstab setup to |
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automatically enable the encryption and prompt for the password when |
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certain filesystems are mounted (of course, that only works if running |
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'mount' from the command line, for now). I do not think this is |
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possible with dm-crypt yet. |
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>Regarding loop-AES I've read it needs some heavy patching here and there, I |
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>don't want to do any patching myself because I am likely to loose track of |
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Gentoo already includes the necessary patches if you have USE=crypt. |
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You just have to remember to do "emerge loop-aes" after each kernel |
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upgrade to rebuild the kernel module. |
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>That's the idea, that scheme plus the best superted method out fo the box (or |
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>the net, hehehe). I believe it is cryptoloop, but I am not sure. |
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No no no, cryptoloop is completely brain-damaged security, and AFAIK, |
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out of the kernel. Loop-AES would be the logical successor to |
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cryptoloop from a functional and setup standpoint. |
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-Richard |
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