Hey Friedrich, > Because of my lacking understanding of the linux system I am very > curious if the actual data on the harddisk - by following the HowTo - > might really be encrypted ? I agree if we would use the BusyBox losetup but we _don't_! You can check and exec: ls -la /sbin/losetup Losetup is not a symlink to BusyBox like /sbin/halt for example. So the "real" losetup is used and this one supports encryption. -- flip