Mr. Ruusu: How difficult would it be to add this to the documentation? I am not sure if it is already there (I was never concerned about such things as using some other cipher than AES), but it seems like it would be useful to have in the docs if it is not already. Very Respectfully, Stuart Blake Tener, IT3 (E-4), USNR-R, N3GWG Beverly Hills, California VTU 1904G (Volunteer Training Unit) stuart@bh90210.net west coast: (310)-358-0202 P.O. Box 16043, Beverly Hills, CA 90209-2043 east coast: (215)-338-6005 P.O. Box 45859, Philadelphia, PA 19149-5859 Telecopier: (419)-715-6073 fax to email gateway via www.efax.com (it's free!) JOIN THE US NAVY RESERVE, SERVE YOUR COUNTRY, AND BENEFIT FROM IT ALL. Tuesday, February 26, 2002 1:25 PM -----Original Message----- From: linux-crypto-bounce@nl.linux.org [mailto:linux-crypto-bounce@nl.linux.org] On Behalf Of Jari Ruusu Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:45 AM To: Richard Zidlicky Cc: linux-crypto@nl.linux.org Subject: Re: loop-AES supported ciphers Richard Zidlicky wrote: > is there any way to use other encryption ciphers than AES with > loop-AES? The name seems to contradict that. More ciphers can be loaded as modules. Loop-AES comes with just one cipher built in. For example, to use twofish cipher from SuSE kernel sources all you need to do is copy the drivers/block/loop_fish2.c file to some directory, and the compile it with a Makefile like this: LINUX_SOURCE=/lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build TD=$(shell pwd) all: cd $(LINUX_SOURCE) && make SUBDIRS=$(TD) modules modules: $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -DKBUILD_BASENAME=loop_fish2 -c loop_fish2.c -o loop_fish2.o mkdir -p $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/block cp -p loop_fish2.o $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/block depmod -a And then use it like this: make modprobe loop_fish2 losetup -e twofish128 /dev/loop0 /dev/hda666 mkfs ..... losetup -d /dev/loop0 Regards, Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/ - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
