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From: Chris Walters <cjw2004d@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:46:31
Message-Id: 485FC54F.5040203@comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ??? by Dirk Heinrichs
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4 Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
5 | Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Chris Walters:
6 [snip]
7 |> 3. Number and type of ciphers available
8 |
9 | Maybe I'm wrong, but the name loop-aes tells this, right? With LUKS, one can
10 | use (nearly?) any cipher/hash supported by the kernel.
11 [snip]
12 | Gentoo has support for both. Big plus of LUKS is the ability to assign more
13 | than one key (so my wife can boot the laptop with her own key).
14 |
15 | HTH...
16 |
17 | Dirk
18
19 Actually, there are extra ciphers available for use with loop-aes. Just can't
20 figure out how to compile them with the loop-aes kernel patch, yet.
21
22 I might try LUKS. Does it have support for multi-key encryption? How about
23 random key encryption?
24
25 Regards,
26 Chris
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Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ??? Sebastian Wiesner <basti.wiesner@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ??? Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de>