On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:22:23AM +0100, Marc Mutz wrote: > Hi Alex! > > There are currently many mails reaching me that claim that AES is not > supported and that there is no -p option in losetup, like I said in the > howto. The latter stems from the fact that aeb has not included the > correspondig patch I sent to him. A reason he did not give to me. The > former is just a slip in the util-linux.patch: The obvious line for AES > is missing from the list of known ciphers in lomount.c. > > I think, it would be a good idea to add that line and make a 17.11, even > if that remains the only change. > If you like, you can include the patch I sent to you some time ago that > adds support for a -p option to losetup (for reading the passphrase from > a given file descriptor). You then said that this does not belong to the > realm of the international util-linux patch, but I think aeb waits for > that patch to be submitted for inclusion in the mainstream util-linux, > or so I understood him, though he didn't say it openly. So we may as > well collect the changes to util-linux in the patch and then submit it > together to aeb. > Could you send me that patch again? I can't find it. astor -- Alexander Kjeldaas Mail: astor@xxxxxxx finger astor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for OpenPGP key. Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
