On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 04:19:21 +1000, John Tate wrote: > Hey, > > The patch here needed for cryptoloop volumes with keysize specified and > such (the losetup-combined.patch) located here: > http://www.stwing.org/~sluskyb/util-linux/losetup-combined.patch is > offline at the moment. > > Does anyone have a copy? > Why is it not included with util-linux anyway?
Andries apparently felt the changes were too invasive for core system utilities. As Evgeniy said, cryptoloop has been deprecated in favor of dm-crypt, which is more robust and backward compatible[1]. I stopped using that patch some time ago. :-/ But if you need it in a pinch, you can find it here: <URL:http://www.paranoiacs.org/~sluskyb/hacks/util-linux/losetup-combined.patch> HTH, - -Ben [1] But the non-compatible ESSIV cipher mode is recommended for greater security. -- Ben Slusky | Those who will not reason, are [EMAIL PROTECTED] | bigots, those who cannot, are [EMAIL PROTECTED] | fools, and those who dare not, PGP keyID ADA44B3B | are slaves. -Lord Byron - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
