> > 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. from the view of a user, official is what you can download from kernel(i).org a user wants to be able to go to kernel(i).org, download a kernel, compile it with crypto support, setup & mount a loopback device and hide his important files, p0rn, whatsoever there without taking care if he is using the right crypto package! so this should be made possible IMHO instead of creating 1000 crypto packages each with its own advantages and disadvantages and all that kernel patching/compiling/installing mess Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
