Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with loop-aes

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 12:50:53AM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote
> Checkout[1]
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> http://alonbl.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Gentoo/Linux_Disk_Encryption_Using_LoopAES_And_SmartCards

  Unfortunately, 90% of the wiki entry is irrelavant to my situation.
It's aimed at encrypting the entire machine, and making it bootable with
initramfs.  I just need to encrypt a USB key.

  I see that it also says to build various stuff with the "static" USE
flag.  I assume this is for an initramfs boot.  Looking at the ebuild, I
see that it strongly suggests static-libs builds for a whole bunch of
stuff.  I don't know if this is required in all cases, or simply for
booting from an encrypted disk...

LIB_DEPEND="dev-libs/libgpg-error[static-libs(+)]
        dev-libs/popt[static-libs(+)]
        sys-apps/util-linux[static-libs(+)]
        gcrypt? ( dev-libs/libgcrypt:0[static-libs(+)] )
        nettle? ( >=dev-libs/nettle-2.4[static-libs(+)] )
        openssl? ( dev-libs/openssl[static-libs(+)] )
        sys-fs/lvm2[static-libs(+)]
        sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs[static-libs(+)]
        udev? ( virtual/udev[static-libs(+)] )"

  Also interesting is that this webpage recommends *NO* loop support in
the kernel.  This may be important, i.e. loop-aes may provide the
support, and clash with the kernel code.  Time to head off to bed
tonight.  I'll try again in the morning.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications