From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265391AbUBPHdR (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 02:33:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265400AbUBPHdR (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 02:33:17 -0500 Received: from abraham.CS.Berkeley.EDU ([128.32.37.170]:37898 "EHLO abraham.cs.berkeley.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265391AbUBPHdJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 02:33:09 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Newsgroups: isaac.lists.linux-kernel Subject: Re: dm-crypt using kthread (was: Oopsing cryptoapi (or loop device?) on 2.6.*) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 07:28:40 +0000 (UTC) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: isaac Message-ID: References: <402A4B52.1080800@centrum.cz> <20040216014433.GA5430@leto.cs.pocnet.net> <20040215175337.5d7a06c9.akpm@osdl.org> <1076900296.5601.41.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> Reply-To: daw-usenet@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) NNTP-Posting-Host: taverner.cs.berkeley.edu X-Trace: abraham.cs.berkeley.edu 1076916520 22636 128.32.153.228 (16 Feb 2004 07:28:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 07:28:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christophe Saout wrote: >At the moment it supports no IC (ECB mode) or [...] Probably I'm misunderstanding something, but: Do you really mean that you are using ECB mode? How is that secure? (Everyone knows why ECB mode should almost never be used, right?)