Re: remove encryption options from mount and losetup?

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On 06/14/2012 01:47 PM, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Karel Zak wrote:

> Well, someone could come up with another tool to support cryptoloop, or
> rather 'transfer functions'.

cryptsetup can map all compatible mappings with cryptoloop using dmcrypt
(and it can automatically alloc loop device as well) so providing something
compatible is just question of simple wrapper.

IMHO cryptoloop should be removed from kernel... The only usable (and secure)
solution using this interface is out-of-mainline-tree loop-aes extension.

Milan



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