Re: About Loop Device

From: Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Date: Wed Jan 09 2002 - 12:42:20 EST


On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Michael Zhu wrote:

> Hi, I just want to confirm whether the loop device can
> encrypt the whole data on the disk even including the
> boot sector. I want to make a whole block level
> encryption. Thanks.
>
> Michael

This may be a troll. How would you boot? Who decrypts during the
boot?

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

    I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
    attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
    was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.

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