Re: Can anybody please confirm? (SOLVED)

[Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>]

Herbert Valerio Riedel's iv-mode-sector changes (which I didn't know
but have been hanging around on sourceforge for quite a while) fix
the problem. Thanks a lot!

roger

On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 01:28:44PM +0200, Roger Luethi wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> I have come across a problem with linux-crypto and I thought I'd ask
> if the problem exists for others as well.
> 
> So here we go:
> 
> modprobe cipher-aes
> dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/test bs=1M count=1
> losetup -e aes /dev/loop0 /tmp/test
> mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/loop0
> mount /dev/loop0 /mnt
> 
> If this fails for you -- that's the problem. I know how to work around
> it, I think I know pretty well what is going wrong internally, and
> I am currently working on a proper solution.
> 
> My solution involves changes to the kernel, to losetup, _and_ the
> e2fsprogs, so if somebody knows a more simple fix -- please let
> me know.
> 
> Otherwise, I'd like to hear if others are experiencing this behavior
> and consider this a problem, too.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> roger
> 
> Linux-crypto:  cryptography in and on the Linux system
> Archive:       http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/

Linux-crypto:  cryptography in and on the Linux system
Archive:       http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/