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From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Switch to XTS mode for LUKS in cryptsetup in 1.6.0 (Was Re: [ANNOUNCE] cryptsetup 1.6.0-rc1)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 17:17:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130104161703.GA22218@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50E6C1EC.1000307@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 12:50:04PM +0100, Milan Broz wrote:
> On 12/29/2012 10:40 PM, Milan Broz wrote:
> > The testing release candidate cryptsetup 1.6.0-rc1 is available at
> > 
> >    http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/
> > 
> > Feedback and bug reports are welcomed.
> > 
> > Cryptsetup 1.6.0 Release Notes (RC1)
> 
> 
> I am going to do one more important change to final 1.6.0:
> change LUKS _default_ cipher to aes-xts-plain64 with 512bits key.

I think this is a very good idea.

Arno
 
> Most of recent disk encryption systems switched already to XTS mode,
> also it is preferred by standards (and we are using it for very long
> time in Fedora/RHEL during installations.)
> 
> Distro maintainers can always overwrite this during compilation time,
> and user can use -c aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 -s 256 to old mode always.
> 
> (Plain mode have to stay with CBC, change would cause compatibility problems.)
> 
> Any serious objections to not do that now?
> 
> Milan
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-04 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-29 21:40 [dm-crypt] [ANNOUNCE] cryptsetup 1.6.0-rc1 Milan Broz
2012-12-29 22:24 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2012-12-29 22:42   ` Milan Broz
2012-12-29 23:21     ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2012-12-29 23:15 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2012-12-29 23:31   ` Milan Broz
2013-01-02 12:50     ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2013-01-02 20:55       ` Milan Broz
2012-12-30  8:38 ` Arno Wagner
2012-12-30  8:56   ` Sven Eschenberg
2012-12-30 10:20     ` Arno Wagner
2012-12-30 11:40       ` Milan Broz
2013-01-06 12:16         ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2013-01-06 16:24           ` Milan Broz
2013-01-07  6:23             ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2013-01-07  8:53               ` Milan Broz
2013-01-07 11:21               ` Sven Eschenberg
2013-01-07 18:12                 ` Milan Broz
2013-01-07 19:20                   ` Sven Eschenberg
2013-01-21 21:01                 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2012-12-30 11:47       ` Milan Broz
2013-01-05 19:47         ` Jonas Meurer
2012-12-30  9:03   ` Milan Broz
2013-01-04 11:50 ` [dm-crypt] Switch to XTS mode for LUKS in cryptsetup in 1.6.0 (Was Re: [ANNOUNCE] cryptsetup 1.6.0-rc1) Milan Broz
2013-01-04 11:53   ` Ralf Ramsauer
2013-01-04 12:18     ` Milan Broz
2013-01-04 16:26       ` Arno Wagner
2013-01-04 20:20         ` Heinz Diehl
2013-01-04 20:56           ` Milan Broz
2013-01-04 22:05             ` Arno Wagner
2013-01-04 22:39               ` Milan Broz
2013-01-05 17:20                 ` Arno Wagner
2013-01-05 18:25                   ` Milan Broz
2013-01-05 19:47                     ` Arno Wagner
2013-01-04 13:39   ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2013-01-04 16:17   ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2013-01-04 17:36   ` Zdenek Kaspar
2013-01-04 18:55   ` Romain Francoise
2013-01-04 19:14     ` Milan Broz
2013-01-04 21:56       ` Arno Wagner

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