Re: [PATCH] Delete cryptoloop

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Fruhwirth Clemens wrote:

> However, I do recommend that cryptoloop is removed from the kernel || is
> declared deprecated for the following reasons:
> 
> - There is no suitable user space tool ready to use it. util-linux has
> been broken ever since. My patch key-trunc-fix patch has to be applied
> to make any use of losetup. Further I'm not going to submit patches to
> this project to fix user space problems (see below)

Users can mount if you allow it fstab, what tool did you have in mind? 
And AFAIK dm-crypt will not work on a file without workarounds which are 
unknown to mount.
> 
> - I'm not going to submit patches to cure the security problems of
> cryptoloop pointed out in the first few paragraphs,
> 
> - dm-crypt is a stable alternative and can be easily immigrated to with
> the help of my little lotracker tool:
> http://clemens.endorphin.org/lo-tracker

Does it work on files with mount? Until the answer is YES it means that 
it requires new tools being installed and user/admin training. Not all 
Linux systems are used by developers!
> 
> So much for cryptoloop.


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