[gentoo-user] loop-aes - detach util-linux dependency

2013-01-05 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
Hello All loop-aes Users, Up to now, every time a new version of util-linux was out, we had to wait for loop-aes patch in order to use it within loop-aes environment. The dependency between loop-aes and util-linux was hard to maintain for both base-system, crypto and users. Basically, all we

Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES

2009-05-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 10 May 2009 05:35:32 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: loop-aes and aespipe are part of the gentoo-portage. Is ciphers, which is also offered via loop-aes.sourceforge.net also part of portage? I dont find it... Or any other way to choose different cipher-algorithms to be used with

Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES

2009-05-10 Thread meino . cramer
Mike Kazantsev mike_kazant...@fraggod.net [09-05-10 08:30]: On Sun, 10 May 2009 05:35:32 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: loop-aes and aespipe are part of the gentoo-portage. Is ciphers, which is also offered via loop-aes.sourceforge.net also part of portage? I dont find it... Or any

[gentoo-user] Loop-AES

2009-05-09 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, loop-aes and aespipe are part of the gentoo-portage. Is ciphers, which is also offered via loop-aes.sourceforge.net also part of portage? I dont find it... Or any other way to choose different cipher-algorithms to be used with loop-aes? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Have a

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Chris Walters: Also, someone said that it was possible to encrypt using multiple passphrases using dm-crypt. That was me. To be correct: I wrote that with LUKS (which is based on dm-crypt) it is possible to use multiple keys (a key may be a passphrase or

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:20:20 -0400 Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Thanks to all who replied to my previous question. This question is related. Has anyone gotten the 'extra-ciphers' (you can get them from the loop-aes site) to compile

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Daniel Iliev wrote: | On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:20:20 -0400 | Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] | Perhaps they appear as kernel modules? I'm just guessing. I think that is how they are supposed to appear, but I can't seem to get them to

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 schrieb Chris Walters: | Rumor has it that the three-letter agencies (CIA, KGB, M.A.V.O. [2], | etc) can break those algorithms relatively easy. On the other hand even | weaker algorithms can protect your data against laptop thieves. That's more than a rumor.

Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???

2008-06-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb Chris Walters: I might try LUKS.  Does it have support for multi-key encryption?  How about random key encryption? Hmm, didn't I mention this? Yes to both. See also http://luks.endorphin.org. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Sebastian Wiesner
Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 17:14:20 | Rumor has it that the three-letter agencies (CIA, KGB, M.A.V.O. [2], | etc) can break those algorithms relatively easy. On the other hand even | weaker algorithms can protect your data against laptop thieves. You had better

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they use themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the key of the GPCode virus which, according to Kaspersky's assumptions, would keep 15 million modern PCs busy for a

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sebastian Wiesner wrote: | Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 17:14:20 | | | Rumor has it that the three-letter agencies (CIA, KGB, M.A.V.O. [2], | | etc) can break those algorithms relatively easy. On the other hand even |

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: | If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they use | themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the key of the | GPCode virus which, according to Kaspersky's assumptions, would keep 15 |

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Chris Walters wrote: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: | If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they | use themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the | key of the GPCode virus which, according to Kaspersky's | assumptions, would keep 15

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Chris Walters wrote: | Dirk Heinrichs wrote: | | If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they | | use themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the | | key of the

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Sebastian Wiesner
Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 22:25:18 Are you a cryptology expert? Are you then? The only thing that cryptography attempts to do is reduce the **probability** of cracking the key and gaining access to the data as low as possible. No news. That's, why

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Chris Walters wrote: | This is the point where I start to ask for a citation and stop | listening to theoretical possibilities and things that might | possibly could be. Unless of course the exact meaning of phrases | like three hundred thousand million years has a

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
Alan McKinnon wrote: Or perhaps you doubt that they can crack any keys at all... Don't get smart with me, jackass. Fuck off, shitehead. Call me a jackass, when I simply state facts you admitted to? You're a fucking idiot. Welcome to my ignore list. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Jason Rivard
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Sebastian Wiesner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 22:25:18 Are you a cryptology expert? Are you then? I doubt that either of you are cryptology experts. I've known a few, and I am a crypto-expert, who

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Jason Rivard
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: Or perhaps you doubt that they can crack any keys at all... Don't get smart with me, jackass. Fuck off, shitehead. Call me a jackass, when I simply state facts you admitted to? You're a

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Sebastian Wiesner
Jason Rivard [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 23:53:23 The only thing that cryptography attempts to do is reduce the **probability** of cracking the key and gaining access to the data as low as possible. No news. That's, why cryptology defines security not as being

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Jason Rivard wrote: Wait for my private mail, Mr. Walters. I wouldn't bother with a private mail Jason. Tomorrow Chris will calm down, take a deep breath and probably contribute to the list again. It pretty much always works that way. Maybe he's quick to anger.

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes

2008-06-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:40:08 -0400 Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My original question was: Does anyone know how to compile the extra-ciphers package that you can find on the loop-aes SourceForge site. The following works here: 1) ebuild `equery w loop-aes` unpack 2) cd

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Daniel Iliev wrote: | On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:40:08 -0400 | Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | | My original question was: Does anyone know how to compile the | extra-ciphers package that you can find on the loop-aes SourceForge | site. | |

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes

2008-06-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:30:25 -0400 Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | The following works here: | | 1) ebuild `equery w loop-aes` unpack | | 2) cd $PORTDIR/sys-fs/loop-aes-version/work/loop-AES-version/ | | 3) make EXTRA_CIPHERS=y | | 4) cd ../../ | | 5) touch .compiled | | 6)

[gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-24 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Thanks to all who replied to my previous question. This question is related. Has anyone gotten the 'extra-ciphers' (you can get them from the loop-aes site) to compile with the loop-aes kernel patch in place? If so, could you give me a hint on

[gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???

2008-06-23 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sorry if this subject has been hashed and rehashed again, but I was wondering which Gentoo partition encryption scheme is considered the best, in terms of: 1. Security 2. Ease of setup and use 3. Number and type of ciphers available This question

Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???

2008-06-23 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (23/06/08 06:26) Chris Walters wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sorry if this subject has been hashed and rehashed again, but I was wondering which Gentoo partition encryption scheme is considered the best, in terms of: 1. Security 2. Ease of setup and use 3.

Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???

2008-06-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Chris Walters: Sorry if this subject has been hashed and rehashed again, but I was wondering which Gentoo partition encryption scheme is considered the best, in terms of: 1. Security Don't know, I'm not a crypto expert. 2. Ease of setup and use

Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???

2008-06-23 Thread Sebastian Wiesner
Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Monday 23 June 2008, 17:46:23 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: | Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Chris Walters: [snip] | 3. Number and type of ciphers available | | Maybe I'm wrong, but the name loop-aes tells this, right? With LUKS, | one can use (nearly?)