Announce loop-AES-v1.7a file/swap crypto package

loop-AES changes since previous release:
- Fixed bug where running 'swapon -a' in some encrypted swap error cases
  didn't correctly return error status.
- Added "-C nnn" option to losetup and "-o itercountk=nnn" option to mount
  that iterate encryption key nnn thousand times through AES-256. Based on
  code from Sami Farin.
- build-initrd.sh updated to understand losetup "-C nnn" option.
- loop.c-2.5.patched updated with fixes from 2.5.53
- Added workaround for signal locking changes in RedHat 8.1 beta kernel.

bzip2 compressed tarball is here:

    http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/loop-AES-v1.7a.tar.bz2
    md5sum aea5d5abc9684dfab3fd63fa493fe509

PGP signature file, my public key, and fingerprint here:

    http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/loop-AES-v1.7a.tar.bz2.sign
    http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/PGP-public-key.asc
    1024/3A220F51 5B 4B F9 BB D3 3F 52 E9  DB 1D EB E3 24 0E A9 DD


Additional ciphers package changes since previous release:
- Added correct little-endian on-disk format to serpent loop cipher module.
  Code still defaults to incorrect big-endian on-disk format. Losetup "-I 1"
  option and mount "-o loinit=1" option enable use of little-endian on-disk
  format.

bzip2 compressed tarball is here:

    http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/ciphers-v1.1a.tar.bz2
    md5sum 05606e1e84118e2e403494cad4b61116

PGP signature file here:

    http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/ciphers-v1.1a.tar.bz2.sign

Regards,
Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>
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