>>>1. Debian's util-linux comes with support for cryptoapi right out of the >>>box >> Just for info, do you know if the new Debian 3 (which includes crypto) >> has cryptoapi support in his standard version (the ISOs) ? > No, not right out of the box. But there is hope :) For any i386 kernel-image > i'm going to provide override packages, which replaces loop.o with an > IV-patched loop.o, which is neccessary for cryptoapi. Further I will provide > precompiled cryptoapi-core and cryptoloop debian packages for i386. > Be patient, you should be able to apt-get cryptoapi support for woody in > about a 1-2 weeks without the need to touch any source code. It seems that this stuff is ready to go into the mainstream util-linux distribution. I just emailed the util-linux maintainer, and he seemed to say that the only thing holding cryptoapi back was communication. Perhaps with a bit of advocacy we could get the cryptoapi util-linux patch accepted soon. Here is my conversation with the maintainer of util-linux: >> plans to integrate the cryptoapi or loop-AES patches? > Yes. >> time line? > The problem has never been time. > First of all, the problem was copyrights. People sent me > patches that could not be distributed freely because there > was copyrighted material. > Next, there now are at least two sets of loop-AES patches. > It may be that I have unapplied crypto patches in my inbox, > do not recall precisely. But "the crypto patches" is > not sufficiently precise. > Andries -- Mike :wq - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
