Just my two cents: A little bit of documentation by someone in the know regarding modes would be very welcome! I presume XTS is now prefered over LRW as the best mode to use? -- Roscoe On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:48 PM, domiel <domiel42@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > All, > > I've just been doing some experimenting with the dmsetup command; I have a small > file attached via loopback and have run a number of variants of the following: > > echo '0 32768 crypt <cipher-mode> 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef 0 /dev/loop0 > 0' | dmsetup create dmtest > > If I use "serpent-lrw-benbi" or "serpent-xts-benbi" everything works fine but > when I try "twofish-lrw-benbi" or "twofish-xts-benbi" or a number of other > twofish-* combinations it fails with: > device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument > Command failed > > cat'ing /proc/crypto shows entries for lrw(serpent), xts(serpent) as well as > lrw(twofish) and xts(twofish). > > Why is it that I can't seem to combine twofish with either xts or lrw? > > What are the valid combinations for cipher-mode and is there a way to get a > canonical list out of the system? > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx
