Re: Migrating from cryptoapi-2.4.7.0 to patch-int-2.4.17

[Chris Schadl <cschadl@satan.org.uk>]

I've already patched util-linux.  I would find it rather creepy if losetup
were asking me for a password and keysize if I hadn't patched it.

Juan Quintela [18/02/02 17:50 +0100]:
> >>>>> "chris" == Chris Schadl <cschadl@satan.org.uk> writes:
> 
> chris> Hmm, I just checked, and I get the same thing when trying to create a new
> chris> encrypted filesystem:
> 
> chris> [root@lain /root]# dd if=/dev/urandom of=crypto-test bs=1M count=50
> chris> 50+0 records in
> chris> 50+0 records out
> chris> [root@lain /root]# losetup -e aes -k 192 /dev/loop0 /root/crypto-test
> chris> Password :
> chris> The cipher does not exist, or a cipher module needs to be loaded into the
> chris> kernel
> chris> ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid argument
> 
> chris> Here is what I have in /proc/crypto:
> chris> [root@lain /root]# ls -R /proc/crypto/
> chris> /proc/crypto/:
> chris> cipher  digest
> 
> I guess you need to also patch util-linux.
> 
> Later, Juan.
> 
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