On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 12:40:01PM +0000, David Sobon wrote: > Hi, > I'm wondering if encrypted images are forward/backward > compatible between 2.2.x and 2.4.x. I have a test image created in > 2.2.18 (kerneli version 2.2.17.9, created on 2.2.13.2) and works well. > Trying to mount the images in 2.4.0-test12 fails. Is it supposed to be > compatible yes. > or is 2.4.x support incomplete? not sure if it's incomplete. Harald might know. > Here is some output from the > kernel: > loop: enabling 8 loop devices > cryptoapi: Registered serpent (7) > cryptoapi: Registered serpent-cbc (65543) > VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev loop(7,1). > > Also, does the current util-linux patch support creating > crypted images in AES/Rijndael format? I tried modifying util-linux > (specifically lomount.c) to support RIJNDAEL but it did not help. > no it doesn't. 2.2.17.11pre1 should work if you rename the rijndael module to "cipher-aes.o" after installation. I'll get the stuff from 2.2.17.11pre1 ported to 2.2.18 soonish. 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/
