From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Need some suggestions on large drives
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 21:27:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100306202752.GA14060@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B9294CC.10501@gmail.com>
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 12:45:48PM -0500, Scott Castaline wrote:
[...]
> Third, I've been reading the discussion on the different encryption
> ciphers from the Aug 2009 archive and am thinking of using
> serpent-cbc-essiv:sha256. Would this be suitable for a 1TB drive?
Yes. Although there really is no reason to avoid AES. If it
has a backdoor, the portential economic damage would far
outweight the gains, so it is highly unlikely that there
is one.
Arno
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-06 17:45 [dm-crypt] Need some suggestions on large drives Scott Castaline
2010-03-06 19:25 ` Milan Broz
2010-03-07 1:27 ` Scott Castaline
2010-03-06 20:27 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
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