Dan, et al.: Obviously there is no solution in the instant, but this does not make the crypto "broken" as Mr. Ruusu tends to try to make us all believe. Granted, it has wrinkles needing to be worked out. But most people use ext2 (granted I am doing some testing with ReiserFS, but am most likely going to wait for ext3 since it is ext2 compatible, and FIPS and Partition Magic can deal with ext2), so I fail to see a problem. If you need support for a different filesystem, then yes, you will need a different solution. However, selling this issue, as "I-patch is broken" is complete rubbish. Granted on a certain level I agree with you, I would like the I-patch to support different block sizes, as I would like to create an encrypted file, which could be copied to CD-ROM for backup or offline storage reasons. Lastly, I have not been running a 2.2 kernel for some time, and also have never even tried crypto when I did run it, so I cant appreciate your problem as much, but why not just get some extra space and convert everything? Copy from a 2.2 encrypted filesystem to a clear filesystem then back to a 2.4 encrypted filesystem. 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 4:55 PM -----Original Message----- From: Dan Hollis [mailto:goemon@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 4:50 PM To: IT3 Stuart B. Tener, USNR-R Cc: Jari Ruusu; Dale Amon; linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Announce loop-AES-v1.3b file crypto package On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, IT3 Stuart B. Tener, USNR-R wrote: > Are you arguing that my issuing an mkfs with the proper block size, > the I-patch would still be a time bomb? And your solution for fs with non variable block size is... ? -Dan Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
