On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 10:13:49PM +0000, g wrote: > On 02/08/2011 08:48 PM, g1vrg wrote: > > Hi, I'm on SL 5.5 and have Luks encrypted partitions. Can anyone tell > > me whether the encrytption type is aes and key size please? > > never used luks, but i did find this link to have some good info; > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_Encryption_with_LUKS_for_dm-crypt > > > > On another matter when trying to get losetup (cryptoloop) to work it > > returns with the error ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: invalid argument. > > as above, but did recheck page and there is at above link; > > # 7 Encrypting a loopback filesystem > * 7.1 Preparation and mapping > * 7.2 Encrypt using a key-file > * 7.3 Resizing the loopback filesystem > > > which may help, until someone knowledged replies. > > > hth. > > -- > > peace out. > > tc.hago, > > g > .
FYI, the CentOS wiki has a pretty good page on dm-crypt plus LUKS: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/EncryptedFilesystem Ray
