Re: Crypto Patch: Legal Issues

[Michael Gorven]

On Saturday 09 August 2008 17:24:23 Marco Gerards wrote:
> I was about the review Simon's patch.  What is the best way to
> proceed.  More than one person works on this and I am confused about
> how to deal with this.  Would it help if Simons work got in first, or
> didn't you continue with this, but did you just pick pieces of code
> from him instead?

I used his "crypto" module, which manages the available ciphers and hashes. I 
did however make some changes to that, and I also replaced Simon's AES and 
RIPEMD implementations with ones from libgcrypt. I gather that there was a 
problem with the license of those implementations, and so I think that it may 
be easier for me to submit Simon's patch along with mine. My "luks" module 
also has a lot of code in common with Simon's "devmapper" module (which 
handles non-LUKS encrypted partitions), and so I'm planning to incorporate 
that functionality in my "luks" module.

Regards
Michael

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