Re: New patches out for 2.2 and 2.4.

["Dr. Ernst Molitor" <molitor@mibi02.meb.uni-bonn.de>]

Dear Alexander, 

thank you very much for your work on kernel-int, which is most
valuable.

With the 2.4.0.1 patch and the util-linux patch applied to
util-linux...[or].tar.gz, I'm able to create and use new encrypted
file systems via loop, but I seem unable to access those created under
the latest 2.2.17 kernel-int patches. Trying to mount with, e.g.,

	 mount -t ext2 -oloop,encryption=blowfish .crypto crypto

will lead to a passphrase dialog, then exit with an error message
like 

   ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS ...

Trying one of the cipher names that appear in /proc/crypto/ciphers
works fine for newly added ciphers, only, as far as I can see; 
using the full name (that is, with -cbc or -ecb added), leads to
error messages all the time ("cipher not supported"), regardless of
how I try to escape the dash from being interpreted as an option 
lead in by the shell...

I'd very much appreciate a hint on what my mistake could be...

Best regards,

Ernst

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