Hi Steve! On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Steve wrote: > # losetup -e serpent /dev/loop0 cryptfile > Unsupported encryption type serpent > > My feeling is that the versions of the binaries for util-linux are not > patched to handle crypto. However, I installed from the non-US disks > (ala mirror.aarnet.edu.au), and the man pages discuss the crypto > options. dpkg reports : > > # dpkg -l | grep util-linux > ii util-linux 2.10f-5.1 Miscellaneous system utilities. > > Is there another version of util-linux I need to install? FWIW, I have a blowfish encrypted loopback fs and it works fine with my kernel and utils: weasel@defiant:~$ dpkg -S losetup mount: /sbin/losetup mount: /usr/man/man8/losetup.8.gz weasel@defiant:~$ dpkg -s mount Package: mount Essential: yes Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: base Installed-Size: 248 Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org> Source: util-linux Version: 2.10f-5.1 Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems. This package provides the mount(8), umount(8), swapon(8), swapoff(8), and losetup(8) commands. root@defiant:~# losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/loop0: [0342]:40 (/var/randspool) offset 0, blowfish encryption I don't use the debian kernel however, so your problem may be with the kernel (or the cipher). yours, peter -- PGP encrypted messages preferred. http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/ [please CC me on lists]
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