Difference between revisions of "Crypted disk image"

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* open the device (device_name will be in /dev/mapper)
* 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
  cryptsetup -M plain -c aes-cbc-plain -h plain open crypted_image.img device_name
* device_name will be in /dev/mapper
* mount
 
mount /dev/mapper/crypted_image /media/disk
* open the device  (deprecated)
* open the device  (deprecated)
  losetup -e aes /dev/loop0 crypted_image.img  
  losetup -e aes /dev/loop0 crypted_image.img  

Revision as of 20:27, 7 September 2013

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


  • 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