On 03/02/2011 06:12 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I seem to recall that Debian Live used to support using loop-aes for > persistent storage, and that this is not possible (or difficult) in > squeeze because of the removal of prebuilt loop-aes modules generated by > linux-modules-extra. Is that correct?
having the rootfs encrypted was supported through loop-aes, which is not possible with squeeze, yes. persistency was done through luks which should work with squeeze (it's not much tested though). > Max Vozeler worked on a replacement for loop-aes in the form of a > compatible cipher mode for dm-crypt; Milan Broz has since polished up > his changes; and they were accepted into Linux 2.6.38. nice. > If there are a substantial number of Debian Live users with loop-aes > partitions, I think we can justify adding a backport of these changes to > a point release of the kernel in squeeze. I don't know what changes > would be needed outside of the kernel. would be nice if you could include it, so we can advise people that build images with encryption to use backports of live-boot (by automatially including them from live.d.n with lb config -r live.debian.net), once we've updated live-boot to work with it. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d6dda8a.9070...@progress-technologies.net
