hello! On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 22:00, Jari Ruusu wrote: > So many people have asked about more ciphers for loop-AES that next release > may have additional extra-ciphers package with at least serpent, blowfish > and twofish ciphers. ...you may consider changing loop-AES name to something more generic then ;-) anyway, I can't help thinking that you're in the process of recreating the international kernel patch.... ps: ...are you aware of any data corruption problems with loop-AES in combination with XFS on SMP boxes under high IO load? if I get the time, I can try to recreate the issue with 2.4.18; it was present w/ 2.4.16 the last time I checked, and it affected both, loop-AES and patch-int... > I copied and audited serpent and blowfish from cryptoapi, and took twofish > from SuSE kernel sources. Just for the record, blowfish implementation in > cryptoapi on little endian boxes is not straight blowfish, but some > mutated-byteorder-variation. Cryptoapi blowfish on big endian boxes > implements blowfish correctly. btw, that's a known problem (see this mailing lists archives for more details); when it was detected it was too late, thus left so, since it would have broken existing encrypted volumes... regards, -- Herbert Valerio Riedel / Phone: (EUROPE) +43-1-58801-18840 Email: hvr@hvrlab.org / Finger hvr@gnu.org for GnuPG Public Key GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 7BB9 2D6C D485 CE64 4748 5F65 4981 E064 883F 4142
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