On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, peter k. wrote: > why dont you understand that its necessary to have 'official' crypto stuff > for the kernel rather than telling everyone who asks for crypto that the > official crypto sux and that he should use loop-AES?!!? why dont you understand that there is no "official" crypto stuff? who decides which of the varying implementations is the "official" one? so far none of them got integrated into the main kernel tree. the loopAES package actualy is a "fix" for the main problem of the int-patch (ie the problems when applying it), if you can live with the reduced featureset (ie all you want is loopback-encryption). (this is getting a religious discussion. i still prefer the "less code"-strategy.) Gruss, Hauke -- Hauke Johannknecht Berlin / Germany HJ422-RIPE Use PGP ! -> lynx -dump http://www.ash.de/ash.asc | pgp -kaf Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/