Linux Crypto users:
I am going to attack my Linux Mandrake 8.1 upgrade first (its partly
finished), when completed, I will attempt to then add the crypto stuff. I
just saw a thumb print identification hardware (pcmcia) from [I think]
Identicator. Has anyone had experience with this device? G-D only knows if
it is supported by Linux! But, I am at current a bit more concerned about my
W2K security, as I have other good choices for Linux.
One addition issue:
Since having upgraded Mandrake from 8.0 to 8.1 [on my laptop / Dell], I have
the following issue (I still have a second computer to upgrade):
I am interested to find out, when I do a "make xconfig", I cannot at all see
which options are ticked off or not since having upgraded my Mandrake to
8.1. Has anyone noticed this issue? Any way it can be worked around? They
used to be lick red or blue or something check marks, now its all but
impossible to see the marks in the options on "make xconfig" windows.
The only thing visibly ticked off at the moment is mwah!
Linux-Mandrake 8.1 currently installed (FINAL, not RC1).
Very Respectfully,
Stuart Blake Tener, IT3, USNR-R, N3GWG
Beverly Hills, California
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Sunday, September 30, 2001 2:24 PM
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From: Hauke Johannknecht [mailto:ash@xxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 12:57 PM
To: IT3 Stuart B. Tener, USNR-R
Cc: Jonas Larsson; linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Start crypted volumes at bootup?
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On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, IT3 Stuart B. Tener, USNR-R wrote:
> How do you create such a beast?
take a look at
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/initrd.txt
also some distributions (at least SuSE) uses an initrd by
default (for loading scsi-modules afair), so it should be trivial
to add the crypto-modules and modified losetup/mount there.
if anyone is going to try this i would be glad to help in
exchange for half a page of writeup/howto or even a simple
shell-history snippet about this.
Gruss,
Hauke
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Hauke Johannknecht Berlin / Germany HJ422-RIPE
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