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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:00:52 +0200
From: Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: Michael Zhu <mylinuxk@yahoo.ca>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: About Loop Device
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1020109124027.7179A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>; from root@chaos.analogic.com on Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:42:20PM -0500
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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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