On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 10:21:43PM -0500, Lohan Knight wrote: > Is there supposed to be a util-linux patch file for crypto stuff for > util-linux verison 2.12a? If so, where? ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/ $ egrep 'cryptoloop|passphrase' util-linux-2.12a/HISTORY * losetup: cryptoloop support * losetup: -p option specifies fd for passphrase * mount: -p option specifies fd for passphrase cryptoloop support was added in 2.12. > I'm not sure how you accomplished that. Because whenever I use > "make xconfig" and select "cryptoloop" from the menu, it automatically > turns off all of the CryptoAPI stuff. I mean, I go back to the > CryptoAPI stuff, and it's all grayed out. I turn off the cryptoloop > item in the Block Devices menu, and then go back to the CryptoAPI > section, and all of the CryptoAPI stuff is back and no longer > grayed out. This tells me that someone doesn't want you to use > both. Why? Who knows. But I could always try manually > including both in the config file and see what happens. I've never used 'xconfig' and it works well when just using 'config'. > Ah. So if I use CryptoAPI instead of loop-aes, then all of the > util-linux stuff should work without any patches? Yes, if you use 2.12 or later. > But if I use > loop-aes, then I need to patch util-linux? Does that sound > right? As Jari wrote yesterday, you can use the normal util-linux for loop-aes as well, but functionality will be lost. > So if that is so, then my problem seems to be that I can't > select in "make xconfig" the cryptoloop item and the > CryptoAPI items at the same time. No patching of util-linux > would be necessary it sounds like. I just need to manually > enter the config options to turn on cryptoloop and CryptoAPI > at the same time. That should get me up and running. Hopefully :) /Thomas -- == thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx == Encrypted e-mails preferred | GPG KeyID: 114AA85C --
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