Hi Dirk, in fact every thing seems to be right, as I said I followed several guides, the crypto algorithms are also used in a lot of different applications, because I'm very interessted in security and Crypto and this is the reason why I will _never_ use Luks, when you use Luks it's nearly the same as when you don't use any encryption. If you don't know this you should perhaps have a look at the site of the Chaos Communication Camp 2007 where there was a lecture (in English) about this subject. I think in a short time the lecture will be available as a stream.
Thanks for your help. Any other possible hint? Greetz kabel Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: > Am Donnerstag, 16. August 2007 schrieb the.real.kabel: > > >> I'm trying to setup and use encryption on my Gentoo-System. I want to do >> this with cryptsetup. Now after a few tries I followed the how-to's of >> the internet, for example the on on the German Gentoo wiki, or the >> official dm-crypt guide. And always I get the same error: >> cryptsetup -y -c aes -h ripemd160 -s 256 create home /dev/sda5 >> > > First: Better use the LUKS variant - emerge cryptsetup-luks. See > http://luks.endorphin.org for details. > > Make sure your kernel has support for dm-crypt + the hash and cipher > algorithm(s) you want to use compiled either as module or into the kernel > directly. > > If this is the case, you can then > > cryptsetup -y -c aes -h ripemd160 -s 256 luksFormat /dev/sda5 > cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 home > > HTH... > > Dirk > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
