On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 08:04:21PM +1000, Alexander Zangerl wrote: > 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. I can confirm this, I got a aes-256 partition too which works with 2.4.21 + debian mount and 2.4.22 with loop-jari and the spedial patch for 2.11z. - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
