Re: About Loop Device

Ville Herva (vherva@niksula.hut.fi)
Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:00:52 +0200


On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:42:20PM -0500, you [Richard B. Johnson] claimed:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Michael Zhu wrote:
>
> > Hi, I just want to confirm whether the loop device can
> > encrypt the whole data on the disk even including the
> > boot sector. I want to make a whole block level
> > encryption. Thanks.
>
> This may be a troll. How would you boot? Who decrypts during the
> boot?

With a boot floppy, perhaps?

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