RE: huge problems with cryptoloop...

["Steve Wray" <steve.wray@paradise.net.nz>]

You are dead right in that Mandrake comes with the
AES encryption.

I thought that;
1. it would be nice to be able to try some other encryption
algorithms out and have some variety!
2. I wanted to see if I could.

So far I havn't had much luck; I've had to drop
several of the Mandrake provided kernel patches, incl.
the kdb patch, because it was this which was munging
the Makefile so that even though the cryptoloop/api
was showing in make config (et.al) it wasn't getting
compiled. I didn't know enough about the structure of
makefiles to work around it.

So put it down to mental exercise and learning!
;)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: root@pop3.paradise.net.nz 
> [mailto:root@pop3.paradise.net.nz] On Behalf Of Jari Ruusu
> Sent: Sunday, 16 March 2003 6:16 p.m.
> To: Steve Wray
> Cc: linux-crypto@nl.linux.org
> Subject: Re: huge problems with cryptoloop...
> 
> 
> Steve Wray wrote:
> > I've been trying to integrate the crypto patches
> > with the Mandrake kernel src rpm.
> 
> But the question is why?
> 
> Mandrake kernels include loop-AES, which is twice as fast on 
> most modern
> boxes than what CryptoAPI+cryptoloop can deliver. Not only is 
> it faster, but
> it also works with just about any maintained stable kernel 
> that exists.
> Latest version is here:
> 
http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/loop-AES-v1.7b.tar.bz2
http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/updates/loop-AES-v1.7b-20030306.diff.bz2

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


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