From: Goetz Bock <bock@blacknet.de>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] DM encryption target?
Date: Thu Sep 25 08:03:02 2003 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030924142145.GV12384@shell.blacknet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1064404776.5915.9.camel@chtephan.cs.pocnet.net>
On Wed, Sep 24 '03 at 13:59, Christophe Saout wrote:
> Another way to do a password change would be to not reencrypt the device
> but to store the symmetrical key somewhere else and encrypt it with a
> password hash and to just reencrypt that key with another password.
That would be nice, just use the first block for the key (giving you
512byte keysize, and you can generate a realy strong key[*]).
Just in idea.
[*] yes, i know it's only as strong as the user's password.
Security is only as good as it's weekest link, and in the end
that's always the user.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-25 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-23 11:02 [linux-lvm] DM encryption target? Greg Freemyer
2003-09-23 12:08 ` Kevin Corry
2003-09-23 11:55 ` Greg Freemyer
2003-09-23 14:02 ` Christophe Saout
2003-09-24 6:21 ` Jon Bendtsen
2003-09-24 7:00 ` Christophe Saout
2003-09-24 9:53 ` jon+lvm
2003-09-25 8:03 ` Goetz Bock [this message]
2003-09-25 11:09 ` [linux-lvm] RFC: " Christophe Saout
2003-09-26 7:50 ` jon+lvm
2003-09-26 8:05 ` Christophe Saout
2003-09-29 8:07 ` Goetz Bock
2003-09-29 8:40 ` jon+lvm
2003-09-26 14:16 ` Greg Freemyer
2003-09-27 8:35 ` jon+lvm
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