Encrypted Loopback Filesystems

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Okay... I found a HOWTO on this subject, but I hit a snag when I tried to implement it:

I applied the crypto patch from www.kernel.org (http://www.kernel.org) to kernel 2.4.13, and I enabled support for encryption, (AES and serpent algorithims), and then I enabled support for loopback encryption. When I try to compile the kernel, it refuses to compile.

I'm sorry I didn't include the complete output, but I think it stops at either loop.o or crypto.o, I'm not sure...

Could the crypto source be broken? Or am I using an incompatible kernel? I have to run at least 2.4.5 due to my setup, but I would like to mess around with Encrypted Loopback Filesystems. If anyone has any input, I'd appreciate it.

[thedexman]

Do you think you could point us to the HOWTO, tell us which patch you're using, and --possibly some hint as to what the compile errors are-- ?

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

I found it on Linuxdoc HOWTOs (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Loopback-Encrypted-Filesystem-HOWTO.html). I am using the latest crypto patch from kernel.org (2.4.3.x?). The actual error I get is from crypto.o-- It states there is an undefined reference to something... but I'll have to repost that-- I haven't tried to recompile lately. Hope that helps...