From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] cryptsetup FAQ montly posting 2/2011
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:14:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110211201443.GA5111@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110211180724.GA2366@tansi.org>
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 07:07:24PM +0100, Arno Wagner wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 04:38:22PM +0100, Milan Broz wrote:
> > On 02/11/2011 02:44 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 14:42 +0100, Arno Wagner wrote:
> > >> Hmm. Does some distro use XTS mode with 512 bit keys as
> > >> default? Which one?
> > > Perhaps not distros, but I guess there are quite a few people using XTS
> > > with two 256 bit keys.
> >
> > Even distros, Fedora and RHEL6 installers are using XTS with 512bit
> > keys (thus AES256).
> >
> > (It is not crytpsetup default there, installer overrides it
> > when encrypted install is selected.)
> >
> > Milan
>
> Ok, thanks. I will add a warning about non-default parameters
> and also give the numbers for 512 bit in the layout section
> and in the explanation on how to overwrite the keyslots.
Fixed and hopefully correct. I verified the positions
against a LUKS loopfile with aes-xts-plain and 512 bit
keylength.
Arno
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-05 6:52 [dm-crypt] cryptsetup FAQ montly posting 2/2011 Arno Wagner
2011-02-11 12:06 ` Roscoe
2011-02-11 13:42 ` Arno Wagner
2011-02-11 13:44 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2011-02-11 15:38 ` Milan Broz
2011-02-11 18:07 ` Arno Wagner
2011-02-11 20:14 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
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2011-02-01 11:56 Arno Wagner
2011-02-05 0:50 ` Lurkos
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