Mr. Amon, et al.: A better solution (IMHO) would be to create an I-patch that does not choke on most distributions, and does not REQUIRE the Linus kernel to work. Very Respectfully, Stuart Blake Tener, IT3, USNR-R, N3GWG VTU 1904G (Volunteer Training Unit) stuart@xxxxxxxxxxx west coast: (310)-358-0202 P.O. Box 16043, Beverly Hills, CA 90209-2043 east coast: (215)-338-6005 P.O. Box 45859, Philadelphia, PA 19149-5859 Telecopier: (419)-715-6073 fax to email gateway via www.efax.com (it's free!) JOIN THE US NAVY RESERVE, SERVE YOUR COUNTRY, AND BENEFIT FROM IT ALL. Monday, July 09, 2001 4:35 PM -----Original Message----- From: Dale Amon [mailto:amon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dale Amon Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 5:41 AM To: IT3 Stuart B. Tener, USNR-R Cc: linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Using Crypto under LM8+2.4.6 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/
