September 2010 Review

markus reichelt <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 6 Oct 2010 22:06:43 +0200

Well, I'm going to give it some more months. Let's see where this
goes. (Needless to say, feel free to chime in, anything linux crypto
related is welcome. Just go for it.)

 - loop-AES-v3.4b file/swap crypto package was released on 2010-09-23:
   http://www.spinics.net/lists/crypto/msg04992.html

   quoting its release log:
    - Worked around block layer interface breakage on linux-2.6.36-rc
      kernels.
    - Added workaround for device open/close reference count race.
      This race caused random loop-AES "make tests" failures with
      "ioctl: LOOP_CLR_FD: Device or resource busy" error message.
      The workaround is in util-linux patch (new mount/umount/losetup/
      swapon binaries). Thanks to Julien Moutinho for reporting/testing
      this problem. 

 - Version 0.4.2 of loop-AES FAQ was released on 2010-10-06:
   #43 added, #17 adapted, #33 adapted to loop-AES-v3.4b, new patches added
   - FAQ 43: make tests fails: Device busy
     - solution given via release of loop-AES-v3.4b
   - FAQ 33: Why does loop-AES still ask for a password instead of a
     passphrase?
     - new patches for loop-AES-v3.4b
   - FAQ 17: Which distros include loop-AES?
     - Gentoo [version unclear - contributed info, thanks]

Better late than never - Vidalia - August 2010 catch-up:

 - Vidalia 0.2.10 released on Aug 26 2010
   https://trac.vidalia-project.net/milestone/Vidalia%200.2.10
   quoting its release log:

   - Drop remote GeoIP lookups. Instead, the default behavior now is to
     use the country-level GeoIP database that ships with Tor to map an
     IP address to a country code, and then map the country code to latitude
     and longitude with a separate database built into Vidalia. 
   - Add a -DUSE_GEOIP build option to enable building with MaxMind's
     GeoIP C library for using a local city-level or country-level
     database instead of Tor's database.
     See README.geoip for details on use. 
   - Only update a stream's displayed target address in the network map if
     no hostname was given in the stream's NEW status event. Fix suggested
     by Robert Hogan. (Ticket #608) 
   - Update the menubar icon at the same time as the dock icon on OS X.
     Previously, we had a blank icon in the menubar. (Ticket #610) 
   - Updated several translations.

   prebuilt packages for Slackware 13.1 are available at
   http://mareichelt.de/pub/mine/slackware/builds/vidalia/pkg/13.1/

   Please note that the Slackware buildscript will make good use of
   the newly introduced -DUSE_GEOIP option via the upcoming release.

Aug 2010 Review @ http://www.spinics.net/lists/crypto/msg04989.html

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