Re: loop devices?
Hi,
Hmm well I msut be thick or ir is broken.
I've asked in about 4 irc channels, searched dejanews, FAQ's etc and no-one seems to know hot os use it.
I grabbed the code and it looks like (from my poor understanding) as if it is trying to get a single long digit and then does a isxdigit() on each. However no matter what I do I get told the parameter is wrong. I am stuck :-(
Other than mailing the maintainer (which seems silly) I dunno what to do! :-(
S
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 07:56:21PM -0500, Brad wrote:
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> On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Steve George wrote:
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> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/file bs=1k count=100
> > losetup -e des /dev/loop0 /file
>
> hmmm... isn't des considered broken?
>
> > Password: <type a password>
> > Init (up to 16 hex digits):
> >
> > This is the part I am stuck on...what hex digits am I supposed to
> > type?? I've tried hitting return and typing randomly......I can't find
> > anything in the man pages or the kernel src docs.
>
> The hex digits are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, and F.
> Case may or may not matter, and if it matters could be lower or upper.
>
> This is probably for the inital vector for a CBC encryption algorythm.
> Although this is just a guess, so don't quote me on it.
>
> > Anyone know what I should type please?
>
> 16 of the above digits. It's like asking for a 16-digit decimal number,
> except that they want it in hex here, for logical reasons (specifically,
> it's easier asking for 16 hex digits than asking for a decimal number
> between 0 and 18446744073709551615 inclusive)
>
>
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