Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:52:55 -0600 | From | kernel@mallory ... | Subject | Re: kerneli blowfish/twofish compromised? |
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On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 12:13:59PM +0100, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote: <snip> > I don't think you should send your patches to me - I won't accept > them. However, what you can do (if you bother to do so) is to go > through your patch and describe the changes you've done. Send the > description to me. I can take your description and reimplement your > patch. This should probably work for your patch since it seems that > the changes are pretty small.
Ah, I see. Well, I don't think that would be very productive. I am curious, are you refusing patches from just me, the USA, or the entire world?
> <snip> > What I'd like to do with the loop-devices is to get a general > loop-device implemented that will just query the crypto api for a > cipher and use that instead of being hardwired to a specific cipher. > > When that's done, we can put some nifty things into the crypto api. > For example, we can do superencryption by passing something like > "mars/cbc->rc6/cbc->serpent" as the crypto-algorithm to the general > loop device. The string is supposed to mean to first encrypt using > mars/cbc, then using rc6/cbc, and then using plain serpent.
It appears you have a good plan. I wish you the best.
Reed,
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