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Bug 69207

Summary:	losetup doesn't understand des encryption
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Kirk <kirkjt>
Component:	util-linux	Assignee:	Elliot Lee <sopwith>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Kirk 2002-07-18 23:22:19 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux) 
 
Description of problem: 
after creating a block file (Following the loopback encryption howto), tying to issue the following 
command: 
losetup -e des /dev/loop3 /path/tofile 
gives 
ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid Argument 
 
using -e xor instead of -e des lets it complete.  From what I can gather, this means that the 
util-linux doesn't contain some patches that make the des encryption work. 
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):  2.11r-3 
 
How reproducible: 
Always 
 
Steps to Reproduce: 
1.  losetup -e des /dev/loop3 /path/tofile (created by dd) 
2.  enter a password 
3.enter a hex offset 
	 
 
Actual Results:  error:  ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid Argument 
 
Expected Results:  the system should have mounted the file via the lookback device 
encrypted with DES. 
 
Additional info:

Comment 1 Kirk 2002-07-19 00:00:41 UTC

looks like the actual rpm is named losetup, but that isn't a component available
to select.

Comment 2 Elliot Lee 2002-08-02 14:33:44 UTC

*** Bug 70002 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Elliot Lee 2002-08-02 14:40:59 UTC

losetup comes from the util-linux source package.

I'm not going to add anything in this area that's not in the upstream package, so you need 
to talk to the util-linux maintainer upstream (util-linux.no) - there are multiple 
patchsets to implement loopback encryption support, and none of them had been 
submitted directly to him last I heard.

Comment 4 Kirk 2002-08-03 03:45:15 UTC

According to traffic on the limbo-list, the entire crytoapi has been added to
the rawhide kernel 2.4.18-7.85...wouldn't this require changes to the util-linux
package (losetup) to put it all together?

Comment 5 Elliot Lee 2002-08-04 02:14:47 UTC

Yes, but my earlier comments still stand (the changes will have to come from upstream).

Comment 6 Kirk 2002-08-05 13:50:28 UTC

I contacted Andries at the email address you provided, he responded quickly. 
I'm sure I don't understand the issues involoved, but I think having all of this
working in Limbo/8.0 or even 8.1 would be a huge plus for Redhat.  Here is the
snippet:

>> plans to integrate the cryptoapi patches?

>Yes.

>> when?

>Long ago the obstacle was copyrights. People sent me
>patches that could not be distributed because there
>was copyrighted material.
>Now there are at least two sets of crypto patches,
>the "international crypto patch" and the patch
>maintained by Jari Ruusu.
>Don't know whether the former is considered dead.
>Some time ago I tried to contact A. Kjeldaas in vain.


>Andries