Re: [PATCH] Initial Vector Fix for loop.c.

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:14:52PM +0200, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 11:30:03AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Fruhwirth Clemens <clemens-dated-1056963973.bf26@endorphin.org> writes:
> > 
> > > So go for it. Fix it before 2.6.x is out and we're stuck with this crap
> > > again. 
> > 
> > This will break existing crypto loop installations, making
> > the existing encrypted image unreadable. After all this is Linux
> > here, not HackOS where you can break user file system formats at will.
> > The only way to implement this is with a new flag that is set by losetup
> > and keep the old behaviour by default.
> 
> There is no cryptoloop installation which is affected by this. Read my mail
> properly. Every cryptoloop setup out there uses loop-AES or kerneli's
> patch-int. And both fixed this issue a _long_ time ago. (Have a look at

That's completely wrong. I know of several independent implementation
and installations.

> Again: _no_ userbase is affected by this change. Every userbase which
> could have ever been affected has done the fix for itself.

That's also incorrect.

-Andi