Hello, I'm in the process of setting up an encrypted external drive for backups and can't get the sha256 module to load (Ubuntu 12.04). This is a Xeon 3075, and it does not have a hardware cryptographic device, so that's the root of my issue.
Code:
FATAL: Module sha256 not found.
I've tried adding an alias to my /etc/modprobe.d/aliases.conf, but the module still won't load. Any ideas?
Code:
root@fileserver:~# cat /etc/modprobe.d/aliases.conf
alias sha256 sha256_generic
Code:
root@fileserver:~# modprobe sha256
FATAL: Module sha256_generic not found.
Edit:
It also does show up in my list of crypto modules...
Code:
root@fileserver:~# cat /proc/crypto
name : aes
driver : aes-asm
module : aes_x86_64
priority : 200
refcnt : 1
selftest : passed
type : cipher
blocksize : 16
min keysize : 16
max keysize : 32
name : hmac(sha256)
driver : hmac(sha256-generic)
module : kernel
priority : 0
refcnt : 2
selftest : passed
type : shash
blocksize : 64
digestsize : 32
name : hmac(sha1)
driver : hmac(sha1-generic)
module : kernel
priority : 0
refcnt : 2
selftest : passed
type : shash
blocksize : 64
digestsize : 20
name : stdrng
driver : krng
module : kernel
priority : 200
refcnt : 1
selftest : passed
type : rng
seedsize : 0
name : crc32c
driver : crc32c-generic
module : kernel
priority : 100
refcnt : 1
selftest : passed
type : shash
blocksize : 1
digestsize : 4
name : aes
driver : aes-generic
module : kernel
priority : 100
refcnt : 1
selftest : passed
type : cipher
blocksize : 16
min keysize : 16
max keysize : 32
name : sha256
driver : sha256-generic
module : kernel
priority : 0
refcnt : 3
selftest : passed
type : shash
blocksize : 64
digestsize : 32
name : sha224
driver : sha224-generic
module : kernel
priority : 0
refcnt : 1
selftest : passed
type : shash
blocksize : 64
digestsize : 28
name : sha1
driver : sha1-generic
module : kernel
priority : 0
refcnt : 3
selftest : passed
type : shash
blocksize : 64
digestsize : 20
name : md5
driver : md5-generic
module : kernel
priority : 0
refcnt : 1
selftest : passed
type : shash
blocksize : 64
digestsize : 16
I'm guessing I'll either need to grab a different kernel, or compile my own (I haven't had to do that in years ).
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