Drive encryption support

[Beherit]

I tried finding a thread about this, but couldn't. Please excuse me if it's already been answered.

Is there support for any kind of drive encryption in merlinwrt? LUKS, ecryptfs, dm-crypt, encfs, native ext4?

I've no need for anything super fancy or NSA-secure. Just something that'll prevent potential burglars that'll steal the drive, from being able to easily browse through whatever is on it.

I don't mind having to manually ssh to the router and manually mount it, if needed.

 

[Beherit]

Damn it, I'm daft at times!

Searching for "encfs" instead of "encryption" revealed two existing threads:

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/usb-drive-encryption.30476
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/encfs-arm-version-entware-is-ready-for-testing.33508/

My apologies.

 

[martinr]

I was just about to send you the first link. Sometimes, I find it useful also to search using Google as well as using the forum's search facility.

 

[Fitz Mutch]

Is there support for any kind of drive encryption in merlinwrt? LUKS and dm-crypt?

You might be able to create a encrypted file container and mount it as a loopback device. However, for full disk encryption the short answer is no. You'd need to turn on an extra kernel feature (CONFIG_MD=y) to use the dm-crypt module. Then you need to put Cryptsetup on /jffs or compile it into the Asuswrt-Merlin firmware. So, it works but you have to DIY. I'm using dm-crypt + Cryptsetup LUKS on Asuswrt-Merlin, and it works.