Hi, Hmm well I msut be thick or ir is broken. I've asked in about 4 irc channels, searched dejanews, FAQ's etc and no-one seems to know hot os use it. I grabbed the code and it looks like (from my poor understanding) as if it is trying to get a single long digit and then does a isxdigit() on each. However no matter what I do I get told the parameter is wrong. I am stuck :-(
Other than mailing the maintainer (which seems silly) I dunno what to do! :-( S On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 07:56:21PM -0500, Brad wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Steve George wrote: > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/file bs=1k count=100 > > losetup -e des /dev/loop0 /file > > hmmm... isn't des considered broken? > > > Password: <type a password> > > Init (up to 16 hex digits): > > > > This is the part I am stuck on...what hex digits am I supposed to > > type?? I've tried hitting return and typing randomly......I can't find > > anything in the man pages or the kernel src docs. > > The hex digits are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, and F. > Case may or may not matter, and if it matters could be lower or upper. > > This is probably for the inital vector for a CBC encryption algorythm. > Although this is just a guess, so don't quote me on it. > > > Anyone know what I should type please? > > 16 of the above digits. It's like asking for a 16-digit decimal number, > except that they want it in hex here, for logical reasons (specifically, > it's easier asking for 16 hex digits than asking for a decimal number > between 0 and 18446744073709551615 inclusive) > > > - -- > finger for PGP public key. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.3ia > Charset: noconv > > iQCVAwUBN+wdx77M/9WKZLW5AQHKRAQApbxqQ2k3XCLvaL68AmIXd9YFQPZ74Hnm > jmRBMIMhtCSDU5KiR6U0swoPuDp9AhgmeBJpc4qAIp/rlyR6SZoFNwCtqU+GEALy > OtKu/y/bFqF3ZNTZZ/ec/CybjTMJQ4cwdMJLur+mNPL+SYuCiRJouZeZFOaKRocI > ppdCPPv452E= > =vaR5 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
