Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 30 Oct 1996 23:30:13 -0500 (EST) | From | Gerald Britton <> | Subject | Re: unusual startup messages |
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> ->I have been getting this unusual problem since late 1.3.x .. it started > ->when i decided to put my floppy driver into a module .. it does not cause > ->any problems, but it is a slight annoyance. > -> > ->ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > ->ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > ->Partition check: > -> hda:Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2 > -> hda1 hda2 hda3 > ->VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
It seemed that people missed my point in this startup messages, why does "Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2" appear WITHIN the partition check? it used to appear above it, but when i modularized my floppy driver, the two intermixed.
> ->one more question, is steganography and DES/IDEA crypt going to be > ->incorporated into the kernel in 2.1.x, or are there problems with having > ->cryptography in the kernel? > > I don't think Linus is in favour this this. As IMHO this can be entirely > done in user space, and we don't need an big, bloated kernel. But even we > do it, what would be use of it? There is already suppport for encrypted > volumes, the secure rcp/telnet/ etc are alredy done by ssh stuff, and we > are not going to crypt memory ;)
i agree that having the crypto operations in user space would be a good idea, i have played with IDEA encryption patches, and there is a noticable slowdown when the cryptography is occuring. but, shouldn't hooks be present perhaps for encryption to be handled by a process, feeding the loop device? perhaps and idea similar to the userfs idea, but for devices, a process which could be setup to control the I/O for a device such a process could feed a steganographed filesystem or an encrypted filesystem to a device, which could then be mounted .. i had this idea several months ago, but i did not have the free time to code it, unfortunately i still dont have much free time :(
-- Gerald Britton <gbritton@whitman.gmu.edu> Walt Whitman Internet System Administrator
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