Re: 2.6.3-mm1

Andrew Morton
2004-02-18T23:27:53Z

Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:45:58 +0000
> Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 07:37:34AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Supporting metadata can be quite simple - e.g. a standard header on the first blocks that
> > > has a length and a number of records with unique IDs. And the kernel driver would need
> > > to skip over these headers.
> >
> > The target already takes an offset into the device, so you have what you want.
>
> Ok fine. The only requirement would be compatible IVs then.
>

Would it be correct to say that until someone does this development,
dm-crypt has the same vulnerabilities as cryptoloop? Or is there some
different way of using dm-crypt which is incompatible with cryptoloop, but
is more secure?