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This article will describe how to encrypt entire partition with a Cryptoloop. Cryptoloop is a disk encryption module for Linux. It was first introduced in the 2.5.x kernel series. Cryptoloop has an ability to create an encrypted file system on a single partition or within a regular file, which can later simply be mounted by the mount command. Cryptoloop uses so called loopback device, which needs to be called with any file system request. Currently there are many alternatives for Cryptoloop usage and the most common is Loop-AES. This article will explain a simple usage of the cryptoloop module for partition encryption and mounting within a Linux Operating system.
I thought everyone had moved to dm_crypt with LUKS for encryption.
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http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Cryptoloop-HOWTO/
I also believe there were reported security issues with cryptoloop back in the day. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptoloop
I thought everyone had moved to dm_crypt with LUKS for encryption.