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Chris Walters wrote: |
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> Sorry if this subject has been hashed and rehashed again, but I was |
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> wondering |
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> which Gentoo partition encryption scheme is considered the best, in |
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> terms of: |
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> 1. Security |
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"....Another thing: If I remember correctly, LUKS keeps the actual key |
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on the encrypted disk, itself encrypted with a passphrase. Naturally |
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this means that an attacker only has to break the passphrase, which gets |
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him the key" |
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FYI; I don't know if the above is correct. |
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http://blog.pioto.org/2008/05/encrypting-almost-your-entire.html |
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HTH |
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