> You forgot the link to [1]. Already mailed but here again: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/DM-Crypt
> Never used loop-aes myself. Sorry if I miss the reason for your > confusion because of it. http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net There is the source code. It needs patched util-linux(-ng) package to get working. Also you should not use (crypt-)loop because it conflicts with it (see README inside tar ball). It also provides a really simple swap encryption: - /etc/fstab - /dev/blaX none swap sw,loop=/dev/loop0,encryption=AES256,itercountk=100 0 0 This will make sure that everytime you bootup your system a new encryption is setup with an iteration of 100 (still performant enough for most things). > Opening a dmcrypt volume creates a mapped block device in /dev/mapper. > You treat it like a partition and format it with ext4. Unless you use > some exotic flags for mke2fs, the journal will be put on the same block > device and is encrypted along with the rest of it. > > So: No need to worry about it. Thank you for the explanation. Maybe it should be added to the wiki? > > Hope this helps, > Florian Philipp Sure it does. :) Roland
