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CONFIG_DM_CRYPT: Crypt target support

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_DM_CRYPT:

• prompt: Crypt target support
• type: tristate
• depends on: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM
• defined in drivers/md/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 2.6.4–2.6.39, 3.0–3.9, 3.10-rc+HEAD
• modules built: dm-crypt

Help text

This device-mapper target allows you to create a device that transparently encrypts the data on it. You'll need to activate the ciphers you're going to use in the cryptoapi configuration.

Information on how to use dm-crypt can be found on

http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/

To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be called dm-crypt.

If unsure, say N.

Hardware

LKDDb

Raw data from LKDDb:

• lkddb module dm-crypt CONFIG_DM_CRYPT : drivers/md/Kconfig : "Crypt target support"

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