On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 05:46:39PM +0200, Vincent Schonau wrote:
> On Jul 22, 2004, at 14:36, Martin J Gehrke wrote:
>
> >the /proc/crypto file only has one entry and that is md5
> >
> >i upgraded to FC2 cuase blowfish was included in kernels > 2.5 but its
> >not there?
> >
> >why not?
> >how do i add it?
>
> 'modprobe blowfish'
Please tell me more about the use of /proc/crypt.
I see that there is a rather long list of choices and I did not even
give /proc/crypt a second glance when I saw it way back when.
I 'assumed' it was the older enigma stuff and passwd stuff.
$ vi -x barking
$ file barking
barking: Vim encrypted file data
Now I am curious about the general topic of /proc/crypt.
# ls /lib/modules/2.6.6-1.435.2.3/kernel/crypto/
aes.ko cast5.ko crypto_null.ko md4.ko sha1.ko twofish.ko
arc4.ko cast6.ko deflate.ko michael_mic.ko sha256.ko
blowfish.ko crc32c.ko des.ko serpent.ko sha512.ko
# modprobe blowfish
# cat /proc/crypto
name : md5
module : kernel
type : digest
blocksize : 64
digestsize : 16
name : blowfish
module : blowfish
type : cipher
blocksize : 8
min keysize : 4
max keysize : 56
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T o m M i t c h e l l
/dev/dull where insight begins.
