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