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    Encrypted Container on Asus WL500gP

    Hi everyone,
    i've recently bought an Asus WL500gP and use it
    to download torrents onto a USB connected harddisc.
    Since i'm a little paranoid i want to encrypt the downloaded files.
    I've already searched the web and this forum and the only solution
    i found was using losetup to set up an XOR encryption. Since XOR
    isn't secure enough i'm wondering if anyone managed to get
    loop-aes, truecrypt or something similar to work with the WL500gP.

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    Quote Originally Posted by driest View Post
    Hi everyone,
    i've recently bought an Asus WL500gP and use it
    to download torrents onto a USB connected harddisc.
    Since i'm a little paranoid i want to encrypt the downloaded files.
    I've already searched the web and this forum and the only solution
    i found was using losetup to set up an XOR encryption. Since XOR
    isn't secure enough i'm wondering if anyone managed to get
    loop-aes, truecrypt or something similar to work with the WL500gP.
    That is EXACTLY what I would like to do. I've searched the Internet in a vain, I just can't find any information about someone who has succeeded in doing this.

    Any progress for you yet?
    FAIL (LOCK on `/litmus/lockme': Could not
    parse response: Unknown error)

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    up!
    is there any cryptsetup luks modules availible?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ddayb View Post
    up!
    is there any cryptsetup luks modules availible?
    no, you'd need to compile them yourself, which is probably a little difficult since your router uses a 2.4 kernel instead of a 2.6

    Another thing you might take into consideration is that encrypting it via the router is a terribly slow process. I don't quite expect speeds above 1MB/s

    some info on dm-crypt: http://www.saout.de/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php
    Last edited by wpte; 27-11-2010 at 15:28.

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    thank you for your reply
    i have netgear wnr3500l, it works under 2.6

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    Quote Originally Posted by ddayb View Post
    thank you for your reply
    i have netgear wnr3500l, it works under 2.6
    yes well the thread name is "Encrypted Container on Asus WL500gP"

    anyway, then it might be easier

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    I just did that on wl-500gP v1 with custom rtn firmware (2.6.22.19, you can grab it here - http://wl500g.googlecode.com) with additional modules + compiled cryptsetup (which was the difficult part for me actually) cryptsetup_1.4.3-1_mipsel.ipk

    1) So you'd need to build custom firmware with altered src/gateway/Makefile (to install aes.ko, cryptoloop.ko, sha256.ko, dm-mod.ko & dm-crypt.ko) & modify kernel config as well to build them
    2) Install cryptsetup package (from the link I gave - dependencies will be installed automagically from Oleg's optware repository)

    Quote Originally Posted by wpte View Post
    no, you'd need to compile them yourself, which is probably a little difficult since your router uses a 2.4 kernel instead of a 2.6

    Another thing you might take into consideration is that encrypting it via the router is a terribly slow process. I don't quite expect speeds above 1MB/s

    some info on dm-crypt: http://www.saout.de/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php
    Yes, it's terribly slow to copy something into the container, but you can use it as a secure storage for router configuration for example. But I'm not sure if speeds would be slow on Netgear. I reckon it's bit better than 500gP.

    Code:
    $ dd if=/dev/zero of=1 bs=1M count=20
    20+0 records in
    20+0 records out
    20971520 bytes (20.0MB) copied, 45.423548 seconds, 450.9KB/s
    What would you expect from this hardware? Needs better CPU / more memory
    Last edited by staticroute; 07-06-2012 at 00:22.

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