Chris Kuklewicz wrote: > <snip> > Do people want an improved version of losetup? It could read the > /proc/crypto/cipher/ directory...but that would require loading the > module before running losetup (if you use modules...). > Alex is working on this, I guess. > Or it could have additional command line options to pass in the cipher > number and blocksize. Then it would not need to be recompiled, and > overly paranoid people could use the longer cipher block sizes. > A little modules.conf magic will work when losetup tells the kernel the cipher by name (someday soon?). > The current losetup has no command line flag to get the password or > the key from stdin or a file. Hmmmm... > Patch exists. Was posted to this ml. Search the archive for "a better util-linux.getpass.patch" > Stupid crypto question...are the -cbc versions useful to losetup? > loop_gen always uses CBC mode implicitely. You cannot tell it to use another mode. Are you by chance using an old version of the kerneli patch? Current is 2.2.17.10 or 2.2.18.3, depending upon whether you use kernels < or = 2.2.18, resp. Marc -- Marc Mutz <Marc@xxxxxxxx> http://EncryptionHOWTO.sourceforge.net/ University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics PGP-keyID's: 0xd46ce9ab (RSA), 0x7ae55b9e (DSS/DH) Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
