There isn't any crypto code in the vanilla kernel yet. You have to
apply the international kernel patch available at:
ftp://ftp.kerneli.org/pub/linux/kerneli/v2.1/ [the patch-int-* files]
Select 'General encryption support' under block devices and the
ciphers you want to use under the 'Crypto options' menu. This
"general" loop device module supports blowfish, des, dfc, idea, mars,
rc6, and serpent encryption (using the crypto library). In addition,
there are two additional loop device modules that support twofish and
cast-128 (untested).
To use these other ciphers, losetup must be patched. There is a patch
in linux/Documentation/crypto for util-linux-2.9e that you can use for
this purpose.
For other ciphers than DES, losetup expects a password phrase which is
hashed using RIPEMD-160 instead of a hex string.
astor
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