Thread: cryptsetup: encrypted filesystem on your N900
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2010-01-12 , 20:58
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Originally Posted by t7g View Post
That script he has on the linked page just sets up a loopback device and then encrypts that. I don't think it's really intended to be used to encrypt your entire filesystem.
Maybe not the whole filesystem, though root could feasibly be encrypted...

Anyhow, I've been testing Jebba's packages and kernel, and they work really well for cryptsetup encryption.

Basically, I use it to encrypt the whole SD card, therefore protecting everything that's on it. That's where your data is to be stored, that's the best protection you can have and it's OTF, you just mount it and then use it as normal. You can do the same for the free space on the internal drive.

BTW, anyone tried mounting encrypted partitions via fstab/crypttab on boottime on the N900 with this?

I'm thinking of trying, but had to reflash a couple of times this past day, due to setting this up, and am not sure I wanna reflash again, in case it coughs up some prob when booting. Though it shouldn't and should probably boot... Any thoughts on this? Or rather anyone tried yet?