On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
Not correct. Last change in drivers/block/cryptoloop.c happended 2005-09-02 by Herbert Xu. That one however was not crypto related.
Correct.
On the other hand, the last change in drivers/md/dm-crypt.c happened 2006-03-27 by Andrew Morton.
Which says that dm-crypt IS being maintained, all right?
Much more notable is that dm-crypt always leaked its key, a bug that was only fixed in January 2006. Such a bug is obviously not a sign of quality.
Come on. This key leaking issue is not part of the concept. Such things are called bugs, and removing them is called debugging, which IS a sign of quality because it shows that the code is being constantly object to review and testing. Would you say the absence of such patches in cryptoloop.c is a sign of superior quality than this?
And I wouldn't describe "always leaking the key" as enhanced security either. But it surely is an additionaly feature from the attacker's point of view.
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