Re: Announce loop-AES-v1.3d file crypto package

[Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>]

Hank Leininger wrote:
> My laptop really wants swsusp (suspend to swap), which of course wants to
> be encrypted.  There's a long-standing caveat that using loop-encryption
> for a swap partition will blow up (memory allocations are done in the
> encrypt+write out path, which will die when we are swapping).  However,
> it's not clear to me if this is a problem with the 'crypto-api' patches or
> not (for instance, ppdd is supposed to be able to handle it, so it's
> probably not a problem with the basic loop.o driver).  Do you know if
> loop-AES does/should have a problem with encrypted swap?  Or if, even
> better, it's tested and known to work?

Loop-AES does the alloc/release, so it can't be used to encrypt swap.

Regards,
Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>

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