commence Harmon Seaver quotation: >> cryptoapi seems to have fallen into a state of disrepair... >> > I didn't have any problems at all patching 2.4.18 with cryptoapi. I second that. The patches applied cleanly to vanilla kernel sources. I've been running with my home directory on a Blowfish-encrypted cryptoloop ext3 filesytem for a while now and have encountered no issues. Personally, I'm not willing to use AES for anything until it's been beaten-upon by cryptanalysts for a few more years. -- ///////////////// | | The spark of a pin <sneakums@zork.net> | (require 'gnu) | dropping, falling feather-like. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | | There is too much noise. - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/