I cannot get the international cryptoapi patches to work with kernel 2.4.18. There are too many variables for me to solve the problems. I am running Mandrake 7.2, with kernel 2.4.18 and glibc 2.1.3 on a Dell laptop. I built the kernel without using any modules. During start-up, the kernel reports that the blowfish and MD5 have been loaded. All operations were done as the superuser. 1. The HOWTO (http://cryptoapi.sourceforge.net/) seems to be out of date. It makes no reference to kernel 2.4. It was therefore unclear which kernel configuration options apply. The HOWTO mentions CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_USE_REL_BLOCK and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_GEN, but I could not find them in my linux kernel sources. Which options should I use? 2. There were issues making the patched versions of losetup, mount and umount. 2a Do I still need to run the script posted to the mailing list on 19 Jan 2002 by Pavel Minev Penev? It generates a loop.h file which losetup.c seems to need. Depending on paths, the generated file may further include util-linux/mount/h/loop.h or linux/include/linux/include/loop.h They are not the same. Which is correct? On my system, only linux/include/linux/include/loop.h compiles correctly. 2b The make command failed to find env.o and xstrncpy.o. The solution was to add make -C lib xstrncpy.o make -C lib env.o after make -C lib setproctitle.o. (The HOWTO mentions setproctitle, but not the others.) Is this solution correct? 3. I used the following losetup command: setup -e blowfish /dev/loop0 .crypto It gives the following error. The cipher does not exist, or a cipher module needs to be loaded into the kernel ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid argument _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
