Re: Announce loop-AES-v3.0b file/swap crypto package

From: Fruhwirth Clemens
Date: Mon Jan 17 2005 - 14:17:08 EST


On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 17:08 +0200, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > Is this eventually going in the mainline kernel? I'd like to use it, but
> > if I'm going to have to maintain my own crypto kernels indefinitely this
> > probably isn't the one for me.
>
> Unlikely to go to mainline kernel. Mainline folks are just too much in love
> with their backdoored device crypto implementations [1].

This is FUD. To get serious in-depth information about the problems
associated with dm-crypt and loop-aes read,

http://clemens.endorphin.org/LinuxHDEncSettings

This document has been reviewed by a couple of noteworthy people, also
partially to counter the on-going FUD postings, Jari Ruusu has been
posting to LKML repeatedly.

James Morris: Can we please talk about the merge of my LRW patches soon?
The insecurity of CBC based encryption such as dm-crypt and loop-aes is
the reason why I have been pushing this patch so hard for the last two
months now.

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Fruhwirth Clemens <clemens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://clemens.endorphin.org

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