I was just wondering if you can encrypt an entire device, say a zip drive or cdrw? So insted of this: #dd if=/dev/urandom of=secure.fs bs=1M count=100 #losetup -e aes /dev/loop0 secure.fs #mke2fs /dev/loop0 #mount /dev/loop0 /mount/point Could you do this (/dev/sda4 = usb zip 100M)? #dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda4 bs=1M count=100 #losetup -e aes /dev/loop0 /dev/sda4 #mke2fs /dev/loop0 #mount /dev/loop0 /mount/point or this? #cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0,0 secure.fs #losetup -e aes /dev/loop0 /dev/scd0 #mount /dev/loop0 /mount/point This would eliminate the filesystem, so if the disk is lost, whoever finds it wont have a mountable disk. So insted of finding a disk with a single file on it called encrypted.img or whatever (something that would peek their interest, and make them want to see what it is), they would get a disk full of junk that doesn't even look formated. Just wondering if this was possible or not. Thanks Chris Frederick _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list