Re: [dm-crypt] list of supported encryption options for LUKS

[Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 21:42:06 CEST, .. ink .. wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > But I still think that there should be only few strong predefined
> > combinations.
> >
> >
> The list of option i am going to support for LUKS volumes is listed below
> as taken from cryptsetup benchmark list.
> 
> First condition is for plain volumes,second condition for luks and the last
> one is for truecrypt.
> 
> https://github.com/mhogomchungu/zuluCrypt/blob/c99841c21a6edeea955106134fd54d5935f8e237/zuluCrypt-gui/createvolume.cpp#L238

I would add a warning about gcrypt (see FAQ 8.3) for all
variants with whirlpool. Some people may still use this with
the broken gcrypt implementation.

Apart from that, the list looks fine.

Side-question:
Are the multi-cipher variants like "twofish:aes.xts-plain64.256.ripemd160"
something you do yourself? How do you do them? Additional 
LUKS layers with the same passphrase set-up?

Arno
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