Re: [PATCH] Delete cryptoloop

Bill Davidsen
2004-07-27T19:53:23Z

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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