Re: cryptoloop on 2.4.22 won?t work

[erik@debian.franken.de (Erik Tews)]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 08:04:21PM +1000, Alexander Zangerl wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:47:34 +0100, Dale Amon writes:
> >There is another side-effect. The password taken by
> >losetup is no longer the plaintext, but is assumed to
> >be already hashed. If you wish to use an old loopback
> >file system, you will have to feed your plaintext 
> >password through "hashalot" and pipe it into losetup.
> 
> ahem, that can't be all the truth: i haven't got hashalot 
> but am currently using my old encrypted partition just the same as
> before (ie. typing the same passphrase to losetup) without any
> problems.
> 
> that's an aes-encrypted partition which had been created using
> the cryptoapi-core and cryptoloop packages (sometime between 2.4.18 and
> 2.4.21) and a standard debian losetup.
> now i'm using 2.4.22 with jari's cryptoloop patch and the in-kernel cryptoapi.

I can confirm this, I got a aes-256 partition too which works with
2.4.21 + debian mount and 2.4.22 with loop-jari and the spedial patch
for 2.11z.
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