David Lambert wrote: > > I hope this ius the right place to post problems to the mailgroup > linux-crypto, if not, please excuse my ignorance. > > I think I have followed the instructions in your HOWTO to patch my linux > 2.2.18 system and utils for crpto, but I get the following error when using > losetup with any of the new ciphers. > > [root@xxxxxxxxx dlambert]# losetup -e twofish /dev/loop0 /tmp/.crypto > Password : > ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid argument > <snip> The util-.linux patch and the kernel are out of sync for some ciphers. Either use the stand-along twofish module (near loop support under block devices) or patch lomount.c's table of known ciphers to use '9' as the Twofish ID instead of 2/3/whatever... 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/
