Re: About Loop Device

[Richard B. Johnson]

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.
> 
> Michael

This may be a troll. How would you boot? Who decrypts during the
boot?

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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    I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
    attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
    was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.