-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 05 March 2002 20:54, IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR-R wrote: <snip> > One has to wonder why the CryptoAPI cannot be made to function > in a manner such that loop-aes does with respect to being more > modular. If CryptoAPI was modular in the manner that loop-aes was, I > think its usage would be much more accepted. <snip> This was discussed many times already on this very list. The short answer is: cryptoAPI introduces a new interface to the kernel, loop-aes only uses existing (and stable) interfaces already in the vanilla kernel. The long answer is: Read the archives. Marc - -- Marc Mutz <mutz@kde.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8hgaj3oWD+L2/6DgRAhZfAKD9TtLXUIizVBKZDfBel5Rg8mfgNQCg+RQN teADjgBV+4zGfTpIqwXAKW8= =Md/n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
