Loop AES on a Debian System
HowTo install a Loop AES on a Debian System
replace /dev/sdf1 with your partition name
As root:
- apt-get install loop-aes-2.6.9 loop-aes-modules-2.6.18-4-686 loop-aes-utils
- modprobe loop-aes
- echo "loop-aes" >>/etc/modules
- head -c 2925 /dev/random | uuencode -m - | head -n 66 | tail -n 65 | gpg --symmetric -a >/etc/fskey-hdd.gpg
- If it takes (really really) very long to create this key you might want to check
the available entropy on your system with
cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
- fdisk /dev/sdf
create partition on /dev/sdf1
- losetup -e AES256 -K /etc/fskey-hdd.gpg /dev/loop0 /dev/sdf1
- mkfs -t ext3 /dev/loop0
- mkdir -p /media/sdf1
- mount -t ext3 /dev/loop0 /media/sdf1
Unmount:
- umount /dev/loop0
- losetup -d /dev/loop0
mount existing:
- losetup -e AES256 -K /etc/fskey-hdd.gpg /dev/loop0 /dev/sdf1
- mount -t ext3 /dev/loop0 /media/sdf1
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