Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 15 Jul 1996 22:53:54 -0700 (PDT) | From | Kernel Mailing List <> | Subject | DES code in the kernel |
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I recently desired to set up an encrypted file system in a file via the loop device. I downloaded the package des.1.tar.gz and followed the instructions for installing it in my 2.0.0 kernel including touching the files mentioned (des.c and des.h) problem is it doesn't compilein, I took a look back at des.c and saw that it did not have a des.o file after building so I added des.o to the list of object files to link into kernel.o in the kernel dirctories Makefile. This time remaking the kernel generated a .o file in that directory however attempting to execute something like:
losetup -e des /dev/loop0 test on a 1 meg file called test full of nulls gives: Password: Init (up to 16 hex digits): ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid argument #
i enter the password and initialization digits but no banana. The same procedure without -e des works (of course the file system is not block ciphered like I'd like it)
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