Hi,
OK I have had some more success with this now, still stuck on some points but
perhaps this will help someone and if anyone knows the answers to my queries
that would be nice too:
1) Got the crypto kernel source from www.kerneli.org and compiled a new kernel
with the crypto stuff enabled.
2) Discovered my losetup wasn't crypto enabled so got the source to
util-linux-2.9w from ftp.kernel.org and applied the patch from the kerneli
source.
3) Made the changes to the conf.modules described in the source.
I can now make encrypted loop devices like so:
# losetup -e idea /dev/loop0 file
Password:
# mkfs -t ext2 /dev/loop 100
# mount -t ext2 /dev/loop0 /safe
Only problem is that I have to manually insert the crypto modules manually. It
looks like loop_gen (which seems to add the ability for loop devices) depends
on cipherapi but when I try a normal loop operation the loop modules doesn't
install the others. Instead I have to do this:
# insmod cipherapi
# insmod loop_gen
Anyone know how to make the loop modules call the correct modules?
Finally, I am still stuck with that Binary thing with des encryption - but who
knows what that is ;-)
Thanks,
Steve
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 12:04:28AM +0100, Steve George wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking into using loop devices so I can encrypt stuff onto a floppy
> file system. I am stuck right at the start with loop devices. The manual
> says to do the following:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/file bs=1k count=100
> losetup -e des /dev/loop0 /file
> Password: <type a password>
> Init (up to 16 hex digits):
>
> This is the part I am stuck on...what hex digits am I supposed to type??
> I've tried hitting return and typing randomly......I can't find anything in
> the man pages or the kernel src docs.
>
> Anyone know what I should type please?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
>
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