On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Frank v Waveren wrote: > Moving to the slightly more ontopic stuff for lk@xxxx: Is access to > the cryptoapi algorithms exposed to userspace yet? No, there is no point (apart from testing) unless the kernel API is providing access to crypto hardware. > Thirdly, has the encryption setup changed again since 2.4.x with hvr's > testing cryptoapi stuff? I have a filesystem encrypted with 256 bits > serpent, yet it won't decrypt using 2.6.0-test2 and util-linux 2.12. The kerneli serpent implementation is incorrect (it's reversed, a common implementation problem with this algorithm). > Lastly: Why the move from a /proc/crypto directory containing files > for all the algorithms to one monolithic /proc/crypto file? Isn't the > former a lot nicer from the userspace programmer's point of view? Possibly, although it's probably too late to change now for 2.6. - James -- James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
