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Re: Hello and DVD-ROM encryption

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 info@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> My question: why does loop not accept a file on DVD as input??? and is there
> a way around?

it's because dvd-rom uses 4096-byte blocksizes, while hard drives use 
512-byte.

loop-aes could possibly break up 4096 byte blocks into 512 byte in order 
so that crypto would transparently work across devices with different 
block sizes... but afaik it doesnt currently do this.

-Dan


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