> 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. well, imho the best solution would be to completely integrate crypto into all kernels, especially into the linus one as it at least seems as the official one to the most users.... afaik the only problem about that is that crypto isnt allowed in all countries which was the cause of creating the I-patch, if crypto was integrated into the kernel the whole thing would be illegal in those countries.... i would just solve it like that: put some script "patch-crypto" into the kernel tree so the user can download "crypto.tar.bz2" if crypto is allowed in his country and then just run "patch-crypto crypto.tar.bz2" which will do *all* the patching of the kernel Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/