Re: patching linux utils?

["W. Michael Petullo" <mike@flyn.org>]

>>>1. Debian's util-linux comes with support for cryptoapi right out of the 
>>>box
 
>> Just for info, do you know if the new Debian 3 (which includes crypto) 
>> has cryptoapi support in his standard version (the ISOs) ?
 
> No, not right out of the box. But there is hope :) For any i386 kernel-image
> i'm going to provide override packages, which replaces loop.o with an
> IV-patched loop.o, which is neccessary for cryptoapi. Further I will provide
> precompiled cryptoapi-core and cryptoloop debian packages for i386.
 
> Be patient, you should be able to apt-get cryptoapi support for woody in
> about a 1-2 weeks without the need to touch any source code.

It seems that this stuff is ready to go into the mainstream util-linux
distribution.  I just emailed the util-linux maintainer, and he seemed
to say that the only thing holding cryptoapi back was communication.
Perhaps with a bit of advocacy we could get the cryptoapi util-linux
patch accepted soon.

Here is my conversation with the maintainer of util-linux:

>> plans to integrate the cryptoapi or loop-AES patches?

> Yes.

>> time line?

> The problem has never been time.
> First of all, the problem was copyrights. People sent me
> patches that could not be distributed freely because there
> was copyrighted material.
> Next, there now are at least two sets of loop-AES patches.

> It may be that I have unapplied crypto patches in my inbox,
> do not recall precisely. But "the crypto patches" is
> not sufficiently precise.

> Andries


-- 
Mike

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