Re: [PATCH] Delete cryptoloop

Bill Davidsen
2004-07-22T22:10:39Z

James Morris wrote:
> This patch deletes cryptoloop, which is buggy, unmaintained, and
> reportedly has mutliple security weaknesses. Dropping cryptoloop should
> also help dm-crypt receive more testing and review.

What part of "stable" has escaped your attention? You want your favorite
feature to mature more quickly, so sod all for the people using the
existing feature. If you want to use something else go to it, but stop
trying to make your favorite feature look better by bad-mouthing
something else, like the politicians I see 20 times an hour on TV.

Yes there are people using cryptoloop, and as a pure matter of cost they
are not going to change to something else, because they have to get new
software, reconfigure disks, and most importantly retrain support
people. You may be a single hobby user or developer, who can d/l all the
new software, learn everything from a man page in minutes, and who never
deals with managers or stupid user questions.

Please stop trying to break things in the stable kernel to further your
personal agenda! This is a feature people are using, it would require a
significant effort to change, and from what little I follow the crypto
lists it's not universally agreed that dm-crypt is really secure,
either. Cryptoloop is WAY better than nothing, which is what the client
was using on laptops until last year.

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"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
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