Disk (block device) encryption for Linux and *BSD?

Apologies for the interruption,

I'm looking for disk / partition encryption for Unix-alikes, especially
Linux, OpenBSD and/or NetBSD.

My websearch has been less than satisfactory - I found outdated Linux
kernel patches for encryption loopback, and I distinctly remember reading
about a serious bug in the use (or lack thereof) of key material in this
code.

Do patches for a current Linux kernel exist, and have all the known
bugs been fixed?

Also, there seems to be no version of Marutukku about that I can actually
get to work on *BSD. Is Marutukku still being developed?

Generally, is there a good page that tracks disk encryption for Unix?

I'm currently using cfs here and there, and I have a specific question
about that package, too:

Does the cypherpunks list trust the patches that add Blowfish support
to cfs?

Questions questions..

On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 01:30:06PM -0000, HyperReal-Anon wrote:
> 
> Apologies for the interruption,
> 
> I'm looking for disk / partition encryption for Unix-alikes, especially
> Linux, OpenBSD and/or NetBSD.
> 
> My websearch has been less than satisfactory - I found outdated Linux
> kernel patches for encryption loopback, and I distinctly remember reading
> about a serious bug in the use (or lack thereof) of key material in this
> code.
> 
> Do patches for a current Linux kernel exist, and have all the known
> bugs been fixed?
> 

I have collected the available loop-crypto patches in the
international kernel patch.  It contains blowfish,twofish,serpent, and
cast-128 modules (and an idea module which I haven't ported yet).  The
loopback modules have been updated to work with the latest loopback
patches.  I plan on adding other AES candidates - I have free
implementations of rc6, rijndael, mars, and dfc.  The patch is
available from:

ftp://ftp.kerneli.org/pub/linux/kerneli/v2.1/patch-int-2.1.125.2.gz

I have a collection of utilities you'll need and other 2.0-crypto
stuff mirrored at:

ftp://ftp.kerneli.org/pub/linux/kerneli/net-source/

astor

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