From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] (no subject)
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 03:29:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120904012914.GA22939@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1346721635.29083.YahooMailNeo@web161504.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 06:20:35PM -0700, Anil wrote:
> Newbie here. I need to use dm-crypt with aes-xts. How is dm-crypt called?
Refer to the man-page and the FAQ.
> Is it possible to encrypt data while being saved on the fly?
That is its job. It is not possible to do it in any other way.
> Will there be file filters to encrypt/decrypt while saving
> and opening the file?
No.
> Is aes-xts provided elsewhere as a plugin? or is it part of dmcrypt?
Ciphers and modes are the job of the kernel, not dm-crypt.
It just uses them.
Arno
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-04 1:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-04 1:20 [dm-crypt] (no subject) Anil
2012-09-04 1:29 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2012-09-04 21:14 ` [dm-crypt] newbie qs on dm-crypt Anil
2012-09-05 12:41 ` Arno Wagner
2012-09-11 16:17 ` Anil
2012-09-11 18:31 ` Arno Wagner
2012-09-11 19:06 ` Javier Juan Martínez Cabezón
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2017-04-29 17:48 [dm-crypt] (no subject) Hammad Siddiqi
2017-04-29 18:30 ` Arno Wagner
2017-04-29 19:19 ` Hammad Siddiqi
2017-05-01 17:37 ` Hammad Siddiqi
2017-05-01 18:45 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-05-01 21:01 ` Arno Wagner
2017-05-02 0:29 ` Diagon
2017-05-02 20:49 ` Arno Wagner
2016-06-18 21:40 RAS RAS
2016-06-20 7:52 ` Milan Broz
[not found] ` <1466423154.44272313@f313.i.mail.ru>
2016-06-20 12:02 ` Milan Broz
2015-05-04 14:50 janemba
2015-05-04 16:41 ` Arno Wagner
2014-02-07 13:51 Redwood Hyd
2013-03-17 21:30 .. ink ..
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2012-12-29 22:46 ` Milan Broz
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2012-12-29 23:39 ` Milan Broz
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2012-12-30 7:12 ` .. ink ..
2012-12-30 9:05 ` Milan Broz
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2012-12-30 10:51 ` Milan Broz
2012-12-30 11:49 ` .. ink ..
2012-10-10 21:11 ffrizzy
2012-10-10 21:09 ffrizzy
2012-10-10 23:13 ` Claudio Moretti
2012-10-09 6:24 ffrizzy
2012-10-09 6:21 ffrizzy
2011-09-18 10:58 Ingo Schmitt
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