Re: Cryptoloop hvr issues?

[Venkat Manakkal <venkat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 02/17/2006 03:51 AM, Nandan S wrote:
| Hi,
|    I need to add cryptoloop support to the 2.4.31 kernel. I'm planning
| to use the hvr patch, since the hvr patch would mean minimal changes to
| our custom kernel code. But I see that most of the distributions
| (openwall/debian/gentoo) have chosen the jari patch, and the hvr patch
| seems to be unmaintained.  Is the hvr patch obsolete or are there any
| known issues with it?
| Really appreciate any help,
| NAndan

As I have posted recently:

Cryptoloop implements single key disk crypto that is fubar and the second
implements multi-key crypto that is not vulnerable to the watermark attack.

See: http://mareichelt.de/pub/texts.cryptoloop.php

and from google:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107719798631935&w=2
http://www.governmentsecurity.org/archive/t14922.html

So use loop-aes. I'm waiting for the day when the kernel developers drop
cryptoloop and put in loop-aes, but I'm not holding my breath.

Cheers,

- ---Venkat.

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