Bug 74776

Summary:	util-linux is lacking cryptoloop support
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr>
Component:	util-linux	Assignee:	Elliot Lee <sopwith>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	ali
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OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~hvr/crypto/redhat-8.0/
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Description Herbert Valerio Riedel 2002-10-01 16:04:13 UTC

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Description of problem:
although the stock kernel ships with cryptoloop modules, there's no way to use
it without recompiling the util-linux src rpm;

see http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~hvr/crypto/redhat-8.0/
for util-linux rpms with enabled cryptoloop support;

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.11r-10

How reproducible:
Always

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2002-10-13 16:05:57 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56698 ***

Comment 2 Herbert Valerio Riedel 2002-10-13 16:17:59 UTC

this doesn look like a duplicate;
the other bug was long before redhat shipped any patch-int patched kernel;

it makes not much sense to ship the kernel rpm with cryptoloop and the actual
strong encryption ciphers (!) for kernelspace ... and NOT add that few ioctl()'s
to the user-space util-linux package... (that's like shipping a complete
fireworks set, but not providing the fire-lighter -- ok, the comparisions not
perfect... ;)

Comment 3 Elliot Lee 2002-10-13 16:21:30 UTC

The main point of the other bug was that our util-linux package will get crypto support once 
the upstream maintainer integrates it. That continues to be the case.

Comment 4 Ron Yorston 2002-10-14 10:16:09 UTC

I don't understand Red Hat's attitude here.  The kernel has been patched to
include crypto support that isn't in the stock source, but they don't patch the
utilities that make it possible to use it.  So what was the point of patching
the kernel?