Crypted disk image
From Alessandro's Wiki
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/create-encrypted-loopback-filesystems-on-linux/67
dd if=/dev/urandom of=crypted_image.img bs=1M count=50
See also FileSystems#Encryption
- open the device (device_name will be in /dev/mapper)
cryptsetup -M plain -c aes-cbc-plain -h plain open crypted_image.img device_name
- mount
mount /dev/mapper/crypted_image /media/disk
- open the device (deprecated)
losetup -e aes /dev/loop0 crypted_image.img Password:
- make filesystem (deprecated)
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/loop0
- mount via loop (deprecated)
mount -o loop,encryption=aes crypted_image.img /media/disk