Correction to everyone. I got confused with some other linux crypto projects I was researching. loopaes nor cryptoloop have seperate user and fskeys. Could the maintainers please comment on the design rational behind this? And Jari as well one the design rational behind not hashing the user password? Thank you JLC On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 01:18:18PM +1000, Benjamin Edser wrote: > Hello, > > I'm concerned about your latest post to the linux-crypto list. > > <snip> > > It can be done easily in loopAES since it has a userkey as well as a > > FSkey. > > Are you sure? If this is true for loop-AES, then according to hvr it is also > true for cryptoapi (see cryptoloop.txt documentation in crypto-api source > tree) since you can migrate loop-aes to cryptoapi in a trivial manner. > > I seriously doubt that this feature is in cryptoapi (remember cryptoapi is not > just for disk encryption...), and therefore, seriously doubt that it is in > loop-aes. > > Can you recheck this, and also provide the source for your info. > > thanks heaps > Ben -- http://www.certainkey.com Suite 4560 CTTC 1125 Colonel By Dr. Ottawa ON, K1S 5B6 C: 613.263.2983 - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
