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Message-ID: <20060615102756.GA3758@openwall.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:27:56 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Owl: crypto
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 04:00:08PM +0400, Maxim Timofeyev wrote:
> For some reason it is impossible to create crypto fs...
>
> # for i in aes anubis arc4 blowfish cast5 cast6 crypto_null deflate des khazad
> md4 md5 michael_mic serpent sha1 sha256 sha512 tcrypt tea twofish wp512; do
> modprobe $i; done
>
> # echo 123 | losetup -e sha1 -k 128 -p 0 /dev/loop0 /dev/md4
> ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid argument, requested cipher or key length (128
> bits) not supported by kernel
You're doing something weird. SHA-1 is a message digest (hashing)
algorithm, you can't use it as the cipher for encrypting a filesystem.
Also, most of the time you should not be specifying an explicit key size
(the -k option). Once you choose a cipher, there are only a few or even
a single valid key size for that cipher. If you try to specify another
(invalid) key size, you will get an error message such as the above.
--
Alexander Peslyak <solar at openwall.com>
GPG key ID: B35D3598 fp: 6429 0D7E F130 C13E C929 6447 73C3 A290 B35D 3598
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