Re: cryptoloop on 2.4.22 won?t work

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi>]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 10:16:59PM -0400, Ben Slusky wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:13:08 -0400, Ben Slusky wrote:
> > Hm... in this case I wouldn't expect it to be. You're using 256-bit
> > encryption, but the output of RIPEMD-160 is only 160 bits. It is possible
> > that hashalot sets the remaining bits differently than the old losetup code.
> 
> Looking over the code that I copied into hashalot, the above explanation 
> makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Sorry.
> 
> Did you apply both patches (variable-key-size and keygen-prog) to 
> util-linux? If you didn't apply the keygen-prog patch then losetup may
> mutilate your key.
> 

OK. I missed this. I didn't patch util-linux 2.12 at all.

I'll try again.

thanks!

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