Re: [newbie] overviewing the chaos

[Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan Lühr wrote:
> The data should be able to be accessed form
> userland as well as kernelland based tools. I want to be able to mount it on
> some systems - on other systems userland access is necessary because I cannot
> use the kernel I want. Being able to gain access to my data with OpenBSD,
> Solaris or MacOS would also be nice.

aespipe is userland program that lets you encrypt and decrypt file system
images on any unix like operating system.

> On the one hand, aes-pipe seems to be a perfect approach for this task, but on
> the other hand, I don't know which features of  loop-aes (like multiple keys)
> are implemented in aes-pipe, too.

aespipe supports multi-key mode.

> Well, furthermore, too, what exactly is the relationship between loop-aes and
> aespipe?

Both were written by same author, me. They are compatible with each other.

> Can I safely encrypt / decrypt everthing with aespipe in userland I
> want to use / used with aes-loop

Yes.

> or are there any restrictions?

No.

> After sticking my nose into the presented document's I'd like to know:
> What about "Hering"? Is the implementation broken? Does loop-aes implement
> hering?

Herring is tweakable block cipher designed by Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen.

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