Steve, loop-aes (http://sourceforge.net/projects/loop-aes/) and the cryptoapi interface are two separate crypto implementations. To my knowledge, cryptoapi cannot read the loop-aes devices. Was it loop-aes you were using previously? It sounds like it. I suggest reading the README at the loop-aes site. Daniel. On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 12:54, Lohan Knight wrote: > I was using linux kernel 2.4.21 prior to now. I had patched it > with one of the crypto patches. I forget what I had to do to get > that to work. It was difficult. But it was working. I was able > to create an encrypted filesystem using the loopback device. > Great. > > But recently I had to grab the linux 2.4.26 kernel to support my > new motherboard. It has cryptoapi already in there. I turned > on all of the crypto modules. I compiled the kernel and rebooted. > But alas, losetup reported that it doesn't recognize "aes" as a > valid crypto cipher. I'm actually using blowfish and aes, by > the way. Both of them don't work. When I cat /proc/crypto, > it shows all of the crypto ciphers are loaded in the kernel, > by the way. > > So what do I have to do to get kernel 2.4.26 to the point where > I can create an encrypted filesystem? I don't care too much > about backwards compatibility. Does anyone have a step by > step list of instructions on how to do that? > > I know there's something about grabbing and possibly having to > patch the util-linux stuff so that it can use the crypto ciphers? Do > we have to do that with this kernel? Which util-linux version > should I be using? > > Then there's something about cryptoloop patches? > > Very confused. > > Thanks, > Steve > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Movies - Trailers, showtimes, DVD's, and the latest news from Hollywood! > http://movies.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200509ave/direct/01/ > > > - > Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/ - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
