ANNOUNCE: (BETA!) international kernel patch for 2.4.16 available!

[Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@hvrlab.org>]

*WARNING* this is meant for the brave ones (read beta-testers ;), which
want to do some tests, and hopefully report back any problems they
encounter!

I assume everyone interested already knows what the international patch
is for; and if not then maybe it's better to wait for the final version
of this patch which will get a more informative announcement... :-)

if you head over to {ftp,www}.kernel.org in
/pub/linux/kernel/people/hvr/testing/

you'll find 

*) patch-int-2.4.16.0.{bz2,gz}

a patch that contains:
- the cryptographic kernel API layer
- cryptographic ciphers (aes, twofish, mars, rc6, serpent, dfc,
  blowfish, idea, rc5, 3des, des)
- digest algorithms (md5, sha1)
- cryptographic loop filter module ('cryptoloop')

this patch needs _one_ of the following two patches to be applied in
order to make use of (i.e. compile) the cryptoloop module...

*) loop-jari-2.4.16.0.patch

jari's loop patch (slightly modified +++) featuring:

- IV computed in 512 byte units.
- Make device backed loop work with swap by pre-allocating pages.
- External encryption module locking bug fixed (from Ingo Rohloff).
- Get rid of the loop_get_bs() crap.
- grab_cache_page() return value handled properly, avoids Oops.
- No more illegal messing with BH_Dirty flag.
- No more illegal sleeping in generic_make_request().
- Loops can be set-up properly when root partition is still mounted ro.
- Default soft block size is set properly for file backed loops.
- kmalloc() error case handled properly.

+++ added 2 #defines and 1 typedef to loop.h for cryptoloop.c

*) loop-hvr-2.4.16.0.patch

my patch, with only the following functional improvement:

- IV computed in 512 byte units.


...

ps: the reason for kerneli.org being down or the lack of development of
the int. patch is NOT caused by any government intervention...

regards,
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