On 26/08/2021 18:34, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 06:31:50PM +0200, Milan Broz wrote: >> the cryptoloop is insecure, most of the encryption modes are deprecated >> (and known to be problematic); util-linux no longer support cryptoloop >> options in losetup. >> >> Isn't the better way to go just to remove cryptoloop completely? > > I'm not sure if we're going to break existing users. So maybe for now > get rid of the horrible registration interface, an add a patch to > deprecate it with a warning when people actually use it, and then > eventually remove it. Yes, I know that removal is far disturbing thing here, if it can be planned for removal later, I think it is the best thing to do... And I would like to know actually if there are existing users (and how and why they are using this interface - it cannot be configured through losetup for years IIRC). Thanks, Milan
