Yes, the HOW-TO is *very* out of date. Unfortunatly the lack of development in cryptoapi(until the last 6 months) is a direct result of that. I almost have a new updated HOW-TO finished, I am just not sure how I am going to release it yet(whether with the cryptoapi source or send it to linuxdoc). It will be ready for the cryptoapi 0.1 release... whenever that happens. I'm pretty sure your LOOP_SET_STATUS problem has to do with you not patching your util-linux driver correctly. You may need to go and get the util-linux sources manually and patch them, as i do not know if there is a mandrake rpm available. Dave On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 11:32, John Green wrote: > > 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 seems to be out of date.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/ >
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