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

[Kyle Moffett]

On Jan 18, 2005, at 19:18, Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Venkat Manakkal wrote:
> > As for cryptoloop, I'm sorry, I cannot say the same. The password 
> > hashing
> > system being changed in the past year, poor stability and machine 
> > lockups are
> > what I have noticed, besides there is nothing like the readme here:
>
> cryptoloop is also unusably slow, even on my x86_64 machines...
>
> at the very least someone should merge in the assembler loop-aes 
> routines.
> all other architectural arguments/whining aside, is there any good 
> reason
> not to do this?

As far as I am aware, from monitoring the various threads of this 
discussion for a
few years, the only reason is that nobody has compiled and submitted a 
set of
small, discreet, and obvious patches.  I suspect if someone were to do 
that, it
would be applied without much fuss or whining.  The primary complaints 
against
loop-AES WRT merging it (or any subset) with the mainstream kernel was 
that it
is a single bigdiff, with no real subdivision.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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