dm-crypt
Price
Free to download
Size
-
License
GNU GPL v2
DeveloperChristophe Saout
Website
www.saout.de
System Requirements
Kernel 2.6 and later
Support Sites:Mailing List, dmc-crypt and LUKS
Selected Reviews:
Linux.com
Features include:
- Support advanced modes of operation, such as XTS, LRW and ESSIV (see disk encryption theory), in order to avoid watermarking attacks
- Encrypt whole disks (including removable media), partitions, software RAID volumes, logical volumes, as well as files
- Provides transparent encryption of block devices using the new Linux 2.6 cryptoapi
- Offers similar functionality to cryptoloop but with clear code and a more flexible configuration
- Highly flexible
- Can be used for encrypting any disk-backed file systems supported by the operating system, as well as swap space
- Encrypt RAID volumes and LVM physical volumes
- Configured to provide pre-boot authentication through an initrd
(Source:linuxlinks.com)