On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 17:17, pplf wrote: > > fyi, redhat-8.0 stock kernel is being shipped with cryptoapi.o, > > cryptoloop.o, a loop-iv patched (alas not jari's loop fixes -- so better > > don't swap over the loop device!) loop.o and the cipher-aes.o ansi-c > > implementation, all compiled as modules; > Do you mean that RedHat 8.0 supports crypto-api out-of-the-box, with the > possiblity to create and mount encrypted FS without adding some external > RPMS, like SuSE and Mandrake alreday do ? almost, mandrake comes with loop-aes and corresponding util-linux enhancements; i.e. aes-based loop enryption out-of-the-box suse afaik, comes with it's own loop_fish2 module, allowing for twofish loop encryption... redhat comes with a stripped down cryptoapi (just the aes cipher) and cryptoloop; but without the necessary util-linux enhancements... > Or do you mean, it is still necessary to add yours RPMs ? ...thus my mount + losetup rpms are still required ;-) if you reduce kernelspace cryptography to loop-encryption, then redhat's clearly behind, in terms of out-of-the box readiness, mostly because they didn't ship any cryptoapi enabled util-linux package w/ it... regards, -- Herbert Valerio Riedel / Phone: (EUROPE) +43-1-58801-18840 Email: hvr@hvrlab.org / Finger hvr@gnu.org for GnuPG Public Key GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 7BB9 2D6C D485 CE64 4748 5F65 4981 E064 883F 4142
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