On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:47:34 +0100, Dale Amon writes: >There is another side-effect. The password taken by >losetup is no longer the plaintext, but is assumed to >be already hashed. If you wish to use an old loopback >file system, you will have to feed your plaintext >password through "hashalot" and pipe it into losetup. ahem, that can't be all the truth: i haven't got hashalot but am currently using my old encrypted partition just the same as before (ie. typing the same passphrase to losetup) without any problems. that's an aes-encrypted partition which had been created using the cryptoapi-core and cryptoloop packages (sometime between 2.4.18 and 2.4.21) and a standard debian losetup. now i'm using 2.4.22 with jari's cryptoloop patch and the in-kernel cryptoapi. so, where are our setups different? regards az -- + Alexander Zangerl + DSA 42BD645D + (RSA 5B586291) Fachbegriffe der Informatik, Updateitis: Softwarebulemie -- Frank Klemm
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