Re: cryptsetup stopped working

2012-04-12 Thread Dale Amon
Never mind. I typed 'yes' instead of 'YES' and the error message I was getting was utterly misleading. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htm

cryptsetup stopped working

2012-04-12 Thread Dale Amon
Here is a trace of shell script I am working on. I got through the cryptsetup earlier this evening but for some reason it just stopped working. Just in case, I've rebooted to see if anything needed tidied up. Nope. I also tried using loop1 instead. Also no difference. When the cfdisk ran, I ga

Re: Status of aes in Debian/Ubuntu? (UNCLASSIFIED)

2012-03-29 Thread Dale Amon
Just thought it might be useful for someone else in the future if I feed back the results of some of my tests. The first test is the set up of a dm-crypt based loop back partition: # Create a file for our little 30GB test disk dd if=/dev/zero of=other.ext4 count=60M # Con

Re: Status of aes in Debian/Ubuntu?

2012-03-28 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:14:41PM +0200, Milan Broz wrote: > If you want something simple, use LUKS. cryptsetup > and dmcrypt is in all distributions by default. > Truecrypt uses dmcrypt by default as backend as well. Looking around a bit, it appears that cryptsetup is in the ubuntu server set up

Re: Status of aes in Debian/Ubuntu?

2012-03-28 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:03:22PM -0700, Ryan Corder wrote: > Full disk encryption with LUKS is actually pretty easy, and I do have the full > process written down. I've been looking for a reason to actually type it out > for later use...I'll do that later today and then send it on for reference.

Status of aes in Debian/Ubuntu?

2012-03-28 Thread Dale Amon
Been away from the list for awhile and you went and moved the list on me! Yesterday I pulled out my notes from the last time I set up a crypto disk and found that basically, nothing worked. The losetup lists all the appropriate crypto types in its Man page but when I try to actually use AES256, i