Help trying to setup an encypted filesystem.

["Lohan Knight" <lohan_knight@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was using linux kernel 2.4.21 prior to now.  I had patched it
with one of the crypto patches.  I forget what I had to do to get
that to work.  It was difficult.  But it was working.  I was able
to create an encrypted filesystem using the loopback device.
Great.

But recently I had to grab the linux 2.4.26 kernel to support my
new motherboard.  It has cryptoapi already in there.   I turned
on all of the crypto modules.  I compiled the kernel and rebooted.
But alas,  losetup reported that it doesn't recognize "aes" as a
valid crypto cipher.  I'm actually using blowfish and aes,  by
the way.  Both of them don't work.  When I cat /proc/crypto,
it shows all of the crypto ciphers are loaded in the kernel,
by the way.

So what do I have to do to get kernel 2.4.26 to the point where
I can create an encrypted filesystem?  I don't care too much
about backwards compatibility.  Does anyone have a step by
step list of instructions on how to do that?

I know there's something about grabbing and possibly having to
patch the util-linux stuff so that it can use the crypto ciphers?  Do
we have to do that with this kernel?  Which util-linux version
should I be using?

Then there's something about cryptoloop patches?

Very confused.

Thanks,
Steve

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