encrypting everything

Rémi Guyomarch rguyom@mail.dotcom.fr
Sun, 13 Feb 2000 12:18:42 +0100


On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 06:58:39PM -0800, Joshua Haberman wrote:

> Is there any Linux kernel patch available that allows you to
> transparently encrypt your entire hard drive, and perform decryption on
> the fly?
>
> I want to be prompted for a password at boot time, and then have my
> password used to then decrypt all the files on the drive, so that if the
> password is wrong the hard drive is completely unaccessable and
> unmountable.
http://www.kerneli.org/ http://www.kerneli.org/loopback-encrypted-filesystem.html ftp://ftp.kerneli.org/pub/kerneli/v2.2/