[gentoo-user] loop-aes - detach util-linux dependency

2013-01-05 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
Hello All loop-aes Users, Up to now, every time a new version of util-linux was out, we had to wait for loop-aes patch in order to use it within loop-aes environment. The dependency between loop-aes and util-linux was hard to maintain for both base-system, crypto and users. Basically, all we nee

Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES

2009-05-10 Thread meino . cramer
Mike Kazantsev [09-05-10 08:30]: > On Sun, 10 May 2009 05:35:32 +0200 > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > loop-aes and aespipe are part of the gentoo-portage. > > Is "ciphers", which is also offered via loop-aes.sourceforge.net > > also part of portage? I dont find it... > > Or any other way to ch

Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES

2009-05-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 10 May 2009 05:35:32 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > loop-aes and aespipe are part of the gentoo-portage. > Is "ciphers", which is also offered via loop-aes.sourceforge.net > also part of portage? I dont find it... > Or any other way to choose different cipher-algorithms to > be used wi

[gentoo-user] Loop-AES

2009-05-09 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, loop-aes and aespipe are part of the gentoo-portage. Is "ciphers", which is also offered via loop-aes.sourceforge.net also part of portage? I dont find it... Or any other way to choose different cipher-algorithms to be used with loop-aes? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Have a n

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes

2008-06-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:30:25 -0400 Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | The following works here: > | > | 1) ebuild `equery w loop-aes` unpack > | > | 2) cd $PORTDIR/sys-fs/loop-aes-/work/loop-AES-/ > | > | 3) make EXTRA_CIPHERS=y > | > | 4) cd ../../ > | > | 5) touch .compiled > | > | 6)

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Daniel Iliev wrote: | On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:40:08 -0400 | Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | |> My original question was: Does anyone know how to compile the |> "extra-ciphers" package that you can find on the loop-aes SourceForge |> sit

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes

2008-06-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:40:08 -0400 Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My original question was: Does anyone know how to compile the > "extra-ciphers" package that you can find on the loop-aes SourceForge > site. The following works here: 1) ebuild `equery w loop-aes` unpack 2) cd $PO

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Jason Rivard wrote: > Wait for my private mail, Mr. Walters. I wouldn't bother with a private mail Jason. Tomorrow Chris will calm down, take a deep breath and probably contribute to the list again. It pretty much always works that way. Maybe he's quick to anger. Wel

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Sebastian Wiesner
"Jason Rivard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 23:53:23 > > > The only thing that cryptography attempts to do is reduce the > > > **probability** of cracking the key and gaining access to the data as > > > low as possible. > > > > No news. That's, why cryptology defines "security" n

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Jason Rivard
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Or perhaps you doubt that they can crack any keys at all... >>> >> >> Don't get smart with me, jackass. >> > > Fuck off, shitehead. Call me a jackass, when I simply state facts you > admitted to?

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Jason Rivard
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Sebastian Wiesner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 22:25:18 > > Are you a cryptology expert? > > Are you then? I doubt that either of you are cryptology experts. I've known a few, and I am a crypto-expert

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
Alan McKinnon wrote: Or perhaps you doubt that they can crack any keys at all... Don't get smart with me, jackass. Fuck off, shitehead. Call me a jackass, when I simply state facts you admitted to? You're a fucking idiot. Welcome to my ignore list. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailin

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Chris Walters wrote: > | This is the point where I start to ask for a citation and stop > | listening to theoretical possibilities and things that might > | possibly could be. Unless of course the exact meaning of phrases > | like "three hundred thousand million years" ha

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Sebastian Wiesner
Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 22:25:18 > Are you a cryptology expert? Are you then? > The only thing that cryptography attempts to do is reduce the > **probability** of cracking the key and gaining access to the data as low > as possible. No news. That's, why

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Chris Walters wrote: |> Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |> | If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they |> | use themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the |> | key of

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Chris Walters wrote: > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > | If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they > | use themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the > | key of the GPCode virus which, according to Kaspersky's > | assumptions, would keep

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: | If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they use | themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the key of the | GPCode virus which, according to Kaspersky's assumptions, would keep 15 | milli

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sebastian Wiesner wrote: | Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 17:14:20 | |> | Rumor has it that the three-letter agencies (CIA, KGB, M.A.V.O. [2], |> | etc) can break those algorithms relatively easy. On the other hand even

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they use > themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the key of > the GPCode virus which, according to Kaspersky's assumptions, would > keep 15 million modern PCs busy for

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Sebastian Wiesner
Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 17:14:20 > | Rumor has it that the three-letter agencies (CIA, KGB, M.A.V.O. [2], > | etc) can break those algorithms relatively easy. On the other hand even > | weaker algorithms can protect your data against laptop thieves. You had be

Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???

2008-06-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb Chris Walters: > I might try LUKS.  Does it have support for multi-key encryption?  How > about random key encryption? Hmm, didn't I mention this? Yes to both. See also http://luks.endorphin.org. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digital

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 schrieb Chris Walters: > | Rumor has it that the three-letter agencies (CIA, KGB, M.A.V.O. [2], > | etc) can break those algorithms relatively easy. On the other hand even > | weaker algorithms can protect your data against laptop thieves. > > That's more than a rumor.

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Daniel Iliev wrote: | On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:20:20 -0400 | Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] | Perhaps they appear as kernel modules? I'm just guessing. I think that is how they are supposed to appear, but I can't seem to get them to

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:20:20 -0400 Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Thanks to all who replied to my previous question. This question is > related. Has anyone gotten the 'extra-ciphers' (you can get them from > the loop-aes site) to

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Chris Walters: > Also, someone said that it was possible to encrypt using multiple > passphrases using dm-crypt. That was me. To be correct: I wrote that with LUKS (which is based on dm-crypt) it is possible to use multiple keys (a key may be a passphrase o

[gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-24 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Thanks to all who replied to my previous question. This question is related. Has anyone gotten the 'extra-ciphers' (you can get them from the loop-aes site) to compile with the loop-aes kernel patch in place? If so, could you give me a hint on how

Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???

2008-06-23 Thread Sebastian Wiesner
Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Monday 23 June 2008, 17:46:23 > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > | Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Chris Walters: > > [snip] > > |> 3. Number and type of ciphers available > | > | Maybe I'm wrong, but the name loop-aes tells this, right? With LUKS, > | one can use (

Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???

2008-06-23 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: | Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Chris Walters: [snip] |> 3. Number and type of ciphers available | | Maybe I'm wrong, but the name loop-aes tells this, right? With LUKS, one can | use (nearly?) any cipher/hash supported

Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???

2008-06-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Chris Walters: > Sorry if this subject has been hashed and rehashed again, but I was > wondering which Gentoo partition encryption scheme is considered the > best, in terms of: > > 1. Security Don't know, I'm not a crypto expert. > 2. Ease of setup and use dm

Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???

2008-06-23 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (23/06/08 06:26) Chris Walters wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Sorry if this subject has been hashed and rehashed again, but I was > wondering > which Gentoo partition encryption scheme is considered the best, in terms > of: > > 1. Security > 2. Ease of setup and

[gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???

2008-06-23 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sorry if this subject has been hashed and rehashed again, but I was wondering which Gentoo partition encryption scheme is considered the best, in terms of: 1. Security 2. Ease of setup and use 3. Number and type of ciphers available This question