hi, On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Jari Ruusu wrote: > The cryptoapi file backed loop bug is a result of you doing your new > "toothpaste back into tube" IV computation in in lo_read_actor(), and > old "time bomb" IV computation in lo_send(). this is potentially correct; however it works for 2.4.14 and the loop.c patch from hvr hasn't changed (at least as far as i can tell). i really need to step back from the problem since i've been doing too much with too many different patches lately. i have tested loop-AES and it seems to work well with 2.4.16pre1 (with the small caveat that RH 7.2 has a new mount option patch (nodev) which doesn't get applied with your patch - therefore boot scripts for mounting filesystems fail. i actually hand applied the RH patch on top of yours and have a diff somewhere if anybody wants it). i can't do much more testing until next week. if anybody has any clues i'm all ears. - brett - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
