Re: Problems encrypting disk partitions in 2.4.3

[Tad Truex <tad@oldtools.org>]

On Thu, 10 May 2001, Richard Polton wrote:

> Wasn't there a bug in the loopback driver which surfaced in 2.4.0 and
> was fixed in early 2.4.4-pre?
>

There was a patch from 2.4.3 to 2.4.4 for loop.c I reversed it and applied
it to my 2.4.3 source tree.  It didn't help.  It is entirely possible that
the 2.4.4 patch required other unrelated changes from the 2.4.4 tree to
work correctly which is why it didn't solve my problem.

One thing I noticed from Dale's message is that I have slightly different
response from the 2.11b losetup when trying twofish.  His

              losetup -e twofish /dev/loop0 /dev/md0
              Password:
              Init (up to 16 hex digits):

appears to prompt for a seed, mine

		losetup -e twofish /dev/loop0 /dev/hdc6
		Available keysizes (bits): 128 192 256
		Keysize: 128
		Password :

prompts for a keysize.  I am sure that mine is the 2.11b version of
losetup.  Maybe that is the problem?  Perhaps I need to go back to an
earlier version?  Might I have missed a compile option?


Any thoughts?

Thanks for the responses so far!

/Tad





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