Re: [PATCH] Initial Vector Fix for loop.c.

[Bill Davidsen]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Andi Kleen wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:14:52PM +0200, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote:

> > There is no cryptoloop installation which is affected by this. Read my mail
> > properly. Every cryptoloop setup out there uses loop-AES or kerneli's
> > patch-int. And both fixed this issue a _long_ time ago. (Have a look at
> 
> That's completely wrong. I know of several independent implementation
> and installations.

Could you point to these implementations?

> 
> > Again: _no_ userbase is affected by this change. Every userbase which
> > could have ever been affected has done the fix for itself.
> 
> That's also incorrect.

I think the point is that if moving to another device will really break
data, then this is a good time to fix the problem. Breaking things is
allowed, look at modules.

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Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.