Re: dm-crypt using kthread (was: Oopsing cryptoapi (or loopdevice?) on 2.6.*)

[Christophe Saout]

Am Mo, den 16.02.2004 schrieb David Wagner um 08:28:

> Probably I'm misunderstanding something, but: Do you really mean that
> you are using ECB mode?  How is that secure?  (Everyone knows why ECB
> mode should almost never be used, right?)

Yes, it is how it sounds. It's only used if explicitly specified
assuming the user knows what he's doing. It's mainly for backwards
compatibility because cryptoloop can do the same (but it isn't used by
default either).


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