Only one (md5) entry in /proc/crypto with kernel 2.6.6-1.435.2.3

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 05:46:39PM +0200, Vincent Schonau wrote:
> On Jul 22, 2004, at 14:36, Martin J Gehrke wrote:
> 
> >the /proc/crypto file only has one entry and that is md5
> >
> >i upgraded to FC2 cuase blowfish was included in kernels > 2.5 but its 
> >not there?
> >
> >why not?
> >how do i add it?
> 
> 'modprobe blowfish'

Please tell me more about the use of /proc/crypt. 

I see that there is a rather long list of choices and I did not even
give /proc/crypt a second glance when I saw it way back when.
I 'assumed' it was the older enigma stuff and passwd stuff.

    $ vi -x barking
    $ file barking
    barking: Vim encrypted file data

Now I am curious about the general topic of /proc/crypt.

   # ls /lib/modules/2.6.6-1.435.2.3/kernel/crypto/
   aes.ko       cast5.ko   crypto_null.ko  md4.ko   sha1.ko    twofish.ko
   arc4.ko      cast6.ko   deflate.ko      michael_mic.ko  sha256.ko
   blowfish.ko  crc32c.ko  des.ko          serpent.ko      sha512.ko


    # modprobe blowfish
    # cat /proc/crypto
    name         : md5
    module       : kernel
    type         : digest
    blocksize    : 64
    digestsize   : 16

    name         : blowfish
    module       : blowfish
    type         : cipher
    blocksize    : 8
    min keysize  : 4
    max keysize  : 56

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