On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 17:08 +0200, Jari Ruusu wrote: > Bill Davidsen wrote: > > Is this eventually going in the mainline kernel? I'd like to use it, but > > if I'm going to have to maintain my own crypto kernels indefinitely this > > probably isn't the one for me. > > Unlikely to go to mainline kernel. Mainline folks are just too much in love > with their backdoored device crypto implementations [1]. This is FUD. To get serious in-depth information about the problems associated with dm-crypt and loop-aes read, http://clemens.endorphin.org/LinuxHDEncSettings This document has been reviewed by a couple of noteworthy people, also partially to counter the on-going FUD postings, Jari Ruusu has been posting to LKML repeatedly. James Morris: Can we please talk about the merge of my LRW patches soon? The insecurity of CBC based encryption such as dm-crypt and loop-aes is the reason why I have been pushing this patch so hard for the last two months now. -- Fruhwirth Clemens <clemens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://clemens.endorphin.org
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