I am using loop-aes-3.2e successfully on sparc. Tested it by using losetup to create an aes256 encrypted loop device within a file as well as an encrypted swap. BR, Dustin [I] sys-fs/loop-aes Available versions: (*)3.2e *3.2f ~*3.2g {extra-ciphers kernel_linux keyscrub padlock} Installed versions: 3.2e(09-07-13 16:50)(kernel_linux keyscrub -padlock) Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/sparc/experimental/multilib/server, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.28-gentoo-r5-test sparc64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r5-test-sparc64-sun4u-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:15:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc" CBUILD="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages multilib-strict parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict test unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en de" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_COMPRESS="" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=500" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/modified /usr/portage/local/own" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl admin apache2 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cgi cli courier coverpage cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gd gdbm gpm iconv iproute2 isdnlog javascript jpeg kerberos keyscrub ldap logrotate loop-aes midi mime mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl php png posix pppd python readline reflection sasl session snmp sparc spl ssl suhosin sysfs syslog tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode userlocales xml xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="cs4231" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias asis auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbm authz_host autoindex cache cern_meta charset_lite dav dav_fs deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_connect proxy_ftp proxy_http rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="mach64" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS
~sparc done, closing
