truecrypt

Jima jima at beer.tclug.org
Tue Sep 25 17:07:29 UTC 2007


On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Neal Becker wrote:
> Has anyone looked at truecrypt?  Looks interesting.  I D/L the source, but
> it says:
>
>  Note that Linux kernel headers, located in the 'include' directory, are
>  not sufficient for compilation of the TrueCrypt kernel module. Fields of
>  'dm_dev' structure must be accessed by TrueCrypt but they are defined only
> in
>  an internal kernel header 'drivers/md/dm.h'. No appropriate accessor
> function
>  is available. The complete source code of the Linux kernel is required for
>  compilation of the kernel module.

  Don't we BR kernel-devel when building kmods anyway?  I don't think this 
is a problem at all.  (Aside from the possibility of kmod packaging going 
anyway, anyway.)

      Jima




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