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From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
To: Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca>
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: How to user reiser4 and crypt plugin ??
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:15:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e692861c05062813152eff996a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r7emnu89.fsf@evinrude.uhoreg.ca>

On 6/28/05, Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> wrote:
> > Isn't dm-crypt the new way of doing this?
> Yes and no.  dm-crypt is recommended over cryptoloop.  But there is also
> loop-AES, which is more secure (in some modes) than dm-crypt (currently).

There is now support for both LRW-AES and ESSIV in the mainstream kernel.
With ESSIV the security should be the same as loop-aes and with
LRW-AES potentially better.

For the highest security you should also use the LUKS cryptosetup
because it provides hardening for passwords.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-28 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-28 15:00 How to user reiser4 and crypt plugin ?? Keven Murphy
2005-06-28 15:22 ` Edward Shishkin
2005-06-28 15:38   ` Keven Murphy
2005-06-28 16:22     ` Edward Shishkin
2005-06-28 17:59     ` Hubert Chan
2005-06-28 19:24       ` David Masover
2005-06-28 19:42         ` Hubert Chan
2005-06-28 20:15           ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2005-06-29  1:19             ` Hubert Chan
2005-07-02 12:12   ` Xuân Baldauf

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