You are dead right in that Mandrake comes with the AES encryption. I thought that; 1. it would be nice to be able to try some other encryption algorithms out and have some variety! 2. I wanted to see if I could. So far I havn't had much luck; I've had to drop several of the Mandrake provided kernel patches, incl. the kdb patch, because it was this which was munging the Makefile so that even though the cryptoloop/api was showing in make config (et.al) it wasn't getting compiled. I didn't know enough about the structure of makefiles to work around it. So put it down to mental exercise and learning! ;) > -----Original Message----- > From: root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jari Ruusu > Sent: Sunday, 16 March 2003 6:16 p.m. > To: Steve Wray > Cc: linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: huge problems with cryptoloop... > > > Steve Wray wrote: > > I've been trying to integrate the crypto patches > > with the Mandrake kernel src rpm. > > But the question is why? > > Mandrake kernels include loop-AES, which is twice as fast on > most modern > boxes than what CryptoAPI+cryptoloop can deliver. Not only is > it faster, but > it also works with just about any maintained stable kernel > that exists. > Latest version is here: > http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/loop-AES-v1.7b.tar.bz2 http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/updates/loop-AES-v1.7b-20030306.diff.bz2 Regards, Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@xxxxxxxxxx> - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
