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Crypto-Container

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Infos

In this how-to we use the AES algorythm with a length of 265 bits.
The name of the module can be aes-256 or aes256.

Create Container

Load Modules

modprobe cryptoloop
modprobe aes-256


Create Crypto Container (here: 15G)

dd if=/dev/zero of=/tresor.img bs=1M count=15000


Lock with Passwort

losetup -e aes-256 /dev/loop0 /tresor.img


Create Filesystem

mkfs.ext3 /dev/loop0


Release Loop Device

losetup -d /dev/loop0


Mounting

mount -o encryption=aes-256 /tresor.img /mnt/crypted


fstab

/tresor.img /mnt/crypted ext3 noauto,encryption=aes-256,user,exec 0 0