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Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access



Hi!

* Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> [20030115 22:55]:
> >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Kotes <count-debian@flatline.de> writes:
> Andreas> have a look at the sourcecode in e.g.
> Andreas> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hvr/testing/patch-int-2.4.20.1.bz2
> 
> Thanks.  I'll take a look at that.  If you don't mind clarifying
> something for me, what is the relationship between patch-int, and
> cryptoapi and cryptoloop?

here's how I understand it:

the cryptoapi is the crypto infrastructure for the kernel, including
some ciphers .. this code can be used by other stuff, for example
cryptoloop (the loopback crypto device implementation) or ipsec_tunnel.

all of this can be compiled as a module, and loaded into (almost) any
kernel.

patch-int is all of the above combined, for (optional) compilation into
the kernel.

   Count

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