Re: loopback encryption filesystem patch for 2.0.34 available

Alistair Riddell (alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk)
Sun, 28 Jun 1998 13:27:57 +0100 (BST)


You may want to look at
http://elektra.e-technik.uni-ulm.de/~mbuck/linux/patches.html
where loopback crypto patches against recent 2.0.x kernels are already
available.

Is anybody working on loopback encryption for 2.1 series kernels?

On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Oskar Pearson wrote:

> I have taken the berkeley loopback-encryption file kernel patches for
> 2.0.lownumber and fiddled the patch so that it works with the latest kernel.
> (2.0.34, at this stage, but I guess it will work with 2.0.35-pre*). There
> are also patches to allow new versions of 'mount/losetup' to handle encrypted
> filesystems. The original page is
> ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/filesystems/linux/
>
> The changes to the original patch were pretty minimal, but I would appreciate
> someone going through and checking if there are holes. I don't believe I
> have introduced any, but I may be wrong.

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