Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:48:04 -0700
From: Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
horst wrote:
I noticed a few binaries for Suse and Ubuntu, and the source code for
kernel 2.6.5 or better.
Why does an encryption program have a kernel version dependency? It
ought to need nothing more than open, close, read and write.
Looking at the build.sh in the tar ball
...&& error "TrueCrypt requires Linux kernel 2.6.5 or later" && exit 1
It looks like they build their own kernel module. They avoid standard IO
--for security and performance (just guessing)..................Horst
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