>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Kotes <count-debian@flatline.de> writes: [...] Andreas> FUD alert! I like loop-AES, too, and would REALLY love general Andreas> inclusion into Debian kernels, but this doesn't mean the Andreas> authors of alternatives are/may be idiots. Andreas> Please don't spread Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt without Andreas> referring to facts you're sure of. Leave that to Mickeysoft ;) I wasn't trying to spread FUD. See how my first sentence was a question, and my use of "I couldn't find [information]" and "I don't think", all of which are asking for more clarification. All I know is that when Jari first announced that loop-AES officially supports swap encryption, and detailed what the issues involved were, he mentioned that cryptoapi did not, at that time, handle things properly. Recently, I searched the kerneli.org page, and did a Google search, and could find nothing resembling an official statement, or even an implication from an official source, that cryptoapi/cryptoloop supports swap encryption. Glancing through the changelogs, I did not find anything that suggested that cryptoapi/cryptoloop supports encrypted swap. The author(s) of cryptoapi were aware of Jari's announcement and, to my knowledge, didn't try to refute anything. You can find all the details on the linux-crypto list (do a Google search for it, and I think it's even linked from the kerneli page), around August 2001. A google search for "encrypted swap" actually brings Jari's announcement as the first result. (Looking back, I see that there are actually a few relevant posts by Jari, in August/September 2001. If you can point me to an official statement, please let me know. Things to the effect of "it works for me" don't count, since the issue doesn't seem to be terribly likely to occur. Since you have asked me not to spread FUD without referring to facts, I would ask that you return the same courtesy and not call someone on spreading FUD without referring to facts. -- Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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