Re: LUKS Cryptography Support

[Michael Gorven]

On Wednesday 28 May 2008 18:26:09 Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> Michael Gorven wrote:
> > Numerous ciphers and hashes from libgcrypt: Copyright FSF and LGPL 2.1
> > AES cipher from Simon's patch: LGPL 2.1
>
> If we are to go with libgcrypt way... why you are not using AES from
> there? (or is it not available for some reason?)

Because Simon had an AES implementation in his patch already. I can replace it 
with libgcrypt's implementation if necessary.

> > Two pieces of code I've used: GPL 2 or later
>
> Those being?

AFsplitter [1] and a PBKDF2 implementation [2], both of which are used in LUKS 
key management. I noticed now that the PBKDF2 is copyright by the FSF, which 
might simplify things.

Michael

[1] http://clemens.endorphin.org/AFsplitter
[2] http://www.koders.com/c/fidB24883CA02C26631C5E52CBCB84E74E0EE58840A.aspx

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