It may not be considered a job of loop-aes, but it was be a nice feature to allow the option of running the data through gzip before encrypting it. I looked at cloop, but you need enough swap to hold the entire partition, i guess it does one big zip rather than nice little 512 blocks.
Are 512 blocks too small to compress? would the dictionary take up too much room? Perhaps a larger system wide dictionary could be maintained somwhere, i dunno, thats why i'm asking :)
Brad.
usually you want to compress 128k and 64k size blocks, cloop and gcloop have tools that let you do that by compressing each block, the problem is that you have to write the index of the blocks on the TOP of the file.
Refer to the cloop-0.68. for the tools
and gcloop for a cryptoloop alike implementation
lu
-- Luca Barbato Developer Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
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