Thomas Sjögren wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 08:17:17PM -0500, Lohan Knight wrote: > > Someone suggested I use loop-aes? I have to check into that. > > But does that mean that it only supports AES and not blowfish etc? > > If so, I want blowfish and the rest. I don't just want AES. Having > > a fast version of AES is nice, but not necessary. > > loop-aes is nice and it does support the usual algorithms via an > external patch. Contrary to lies that some people keep spreading, loop-AES has never required kernel patches. > The big drawback is that mount, umount, losetup, swapon > and swapoff has to be patched and recompiled and loop-aes and cryptoloop > doesnt work with eachother. Loop-AES can use cryptoloop's broken and backdoored on-disk formats just fine when told to do that using mount options. Cryptoloop just cannot be used in more secure mode that loop-AES and ciphers packages provide. Optimized dictionary attack: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107419912024246&w=2 Watermark attack: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107719798631935&w=2 -- Jari Ruusu 1024R/3A220F51 5B 4B F9 BB D3 3F 52 E9 DB 1D EB E3 24 0E A9 DD - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
