On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 05:35:00PM -0700, IT3 Stuart B. Tener, USNR-R wrote: > We have to patch "mount" and "unmount", why? Why not place the code for > doing the cryptographic work permanently into those programs, and supply > (with the "non International Kernel") dummy encryption modules which simply > return the text they were passed, thus doing no work. Then in order to add > cryptographic ability to a particular release, all that would be necessary > was to replace the dummy modules with real working ones? > This has been done in the debian sid distribution. I worked with the fellow doing the util-linux package to get the LFS fix into the mainstream: he had already mainstreamed the crypto patches. I do not know if this is in the woody dist yet or not. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Use Linux: A computer Dale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrible thing Village Networking Ltd to waste. Belfast, Northern Ireland ------------------------------------------------------ Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
