Re: Announce loop-AES-v3.0b file/swap crypto package

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Paul Walker schrieb:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 05:08:04PM +0200, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> 
>>Unlikely to go to mainline kernel. Mainline folks are just too much in
>>love with their backdoored device crypto implementations [1]. If you want
> 
> "Backdoored" is a bit strong, I think; that tends to imply deliberate
> placing of a gateway back in, rather than an oversight (which is what it
> looks like to me from your email).

i second that, "backdoored" sound like "with evil intent". an weak
implementation it is. and i hope someday Jari and the cryptoloop+dm-crypt
folks (clemens!) will join forces and present a strong storage-crypto for
mainline.

Christian
(a happy loop-aes user, and being only a *user* alarmed by the crypto-loop
weakness)
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