Re: Question about implementation

[Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@hvrlab.org>]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, lam wai wm wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm the student who want to encrypt, decrypt some data in
> kernel mode.  I've stuck for serveral days, but I still cannot
> figure it out why I can't really encrypt the data.  Could you
> please point out what's problem that I've made.

well, you messed up pointers :-)

> static int init_cipher()
> {
>   char plain_text[11] = "readline26\n";
[..]
>   __u32 input1 = 0;
[..]
>   input1 = (__u32)plain_text;
[..]
>   dump_u32_buffer(&input1, sizeof(input1));
>   ci->encrypt(cx, (u8 *)&input1, (u8 *) &output1, sizeof(&input1));

...see what I mean?

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