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Re: Announce loop-AES-v1.3b file crypto package
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 06:44:43PM +0200, peter k. wrote:
> [...]
>
>> all this mess with crypto is making me go nuts, first internal crypto patch
>> doesnt work so i have to use loop AES, then it says "at least 20 bytes
> Well, I, for one, would love to know if there is any intention
> on fixing the problems in the kerneli stuff. I'm also now avoiding it
> and playing with the loop AES package for that reason.
the international crypto patch has received a bit of criticism few months
ago, so I became a bit unmotivated...
...but if there is enough demand I would work on it again and try to fix
some of the bigger show stoppers, but I don't want to replace Alexander
Kjeldaas if he's still working on the official international crypto patch,
and maybe he has already some unreleased fixes waiting...
the plans were, if I remember correctly, to make the crypto api that
generic as to allow other kernelspace projects making use of encryption,
most prominently network encryption projects, to use the crypto api as a
common cipher repository... or to put it in other words, to implement
kernel encryption services, maybe even allow support for ciphers
implemented in hardware...
... :)
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