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Alexander Skwar wrote:

>Is it possible to encrypt the complete block device with loop-AES?
>Or does it only encrypt a file that's afterwards loop mounted?
>  
>

Yes.  Everything that can be encrypted with dm-crypt can also be 
encrypted with loop-AES.

For example, my laptop has two hard drives.  I have a raid0 array with 
hda2 and hdd2.  Loop-AES encrypts /dev/md0, giving me /dev/loop/0.  That 
in turn is a physical volume for LVM2, which gives me the logical 
devices for all of my filesystems (except /boot, obviously) and swap.

>Oh. You took my example way too literally. 
>

Yep. :-)

Cheers,

-Richard

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