On 02/08/2011 08:48 PM, g1vrg wrote:
> Hi, I'm on SL 5.5 and have Luks encrypted partitions. Can anyone tell
> me whether the encrytption type is aes and key size please?

never used luks, but i did find this link to have some good info;

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_Encryption_with_LUKS_for_dm-crypt


> On another matter when trying to get losetup (cryptoloop) to work it
> returns with the error ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: invalid argument.

as above, but did recheck page and there is at above link;

# 7 Encrypting a loopback filesystem
    * 7.1 Preparation and mapping
    * 7.2 Encrypt using a key-file
    * 7.3 Resizing the loopback filesystem


which may help, until someone knowledged replies.


hth.
	
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