Re: Status of aes in Debian/Ubuntu?

[Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:14:41PM +0200, Milan Broz wrote:
> If you want something simple, use LUKS. cryptsetup
> and dmcrypt is in all distributions by default.
> Truecrypt uses dmcrypt by default as backend as well.

Looking around a bit, it appears that cryptsetup is in
the ubuntu server set up disk.

> Of course, if you want use loop-aes, you have to
> patch all utilities and kernel, it is not so complicated.

I'm not wedded to it... as I noted I have been out of
the loop, crypt or otherwise, for half a decade.

> (cryptsetup can run loop-aes compatible mode as well and
> can allocate loop device as well. But it is your
> choice what encryption and utility to use to use
> of course.)
> 
> For default losetup from util-linux, encryption option
> is in fact deprecated in favor to cryptsetup.

Okay. Now do cryptsetup and the others work in a pretty
standard way? ie, put them in your /etc/fstab and
just feed them a password when you want to mount? Or if
it is a loopback image, you just do the usual

	mount -o loop file /mnt

?