Difference between revisions of "Security"

Revision as of 08:11, 9 January 2011

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-= encrypted image as safe =
+* [[encrypt a disk]]
-Have aes and cryptoloop loaded
- dd if=/dev/zero of=/save.img bs=1024k count=100
---> creates an image of 100 MB
- losetup -e aes /dev/loop0 /save.img
-you can delete this again with -d, but for a new access to loop0 you will need a reboot
---> assigns loop device and password to device
- mkfs.ext3 /dev/loop0
---> formats the device with ext3
- mount -o encryption=aes /safe.img /secret
---> mounts the image with password prompt
-Or enter into /etc/fstab:
- /safe.img /secret ext3 rw,user,loop=/dev/loop1,encryption=aes 0 0