Has anyone been able to set up a loopback encrypted filesystem? I read Loopback-Encrypted-Filesystem-HOWTO. It refers to kernel patches at ftp.kerneli.org/pub/kerneli -- there is a crypto dierctory there, but it is empty. Same situation at ftp.kernel.org. Also, SuSE seems to have alerady done some of the steps outlined in the HOWTO. For example, without doing anything special, XOR works: # losetup -e XOR /dev/loop7 /etc/cryptfile Password: mypassword # mkfs -t ext2 /dev/loop7 # mount -t ext2 /dev/loop7 /crypt # cd /crypt # echo "Hello World" > /crypt/hello # ls /crypt . .. hello lost+found DES almost works (but the HOWTO says DES isn't supposed to work anyway): # losetup -e DES /dev/loop7 /etc/cryptfile Password: mypassword Init (up to 16 hex digits): 12345678990abcdef ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid argument Any other algorithms I try fail even sooner: # losetup -e twofish /dev/loop7 /etc/cryptfile Unsupported encryption type twofish Looks like all I really need to do is compile some algorithms as modules. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Robert Paulsen paulsen@texas.net -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/