| 1 |
Pupeno schrieb: |
| 2 |
> On Thursday 28 July 2005 02:54, Richard Fish wrote: |
| 3 |
>> Pupeno wrote: |
| 4 |
>> >>I use the dm-crypt from the kernel.... |
| 5 |
>> > |
| 6 |
>> >I've read that it is unsecure and I also read that it is not yet vory well |
| 7 |
>> >suported. |
| 8 |
>> |
| 9 |
>> Dm-crypt is fairly well supported, since it is in the kernel, but I find |
| 10 |
>> it to be harder to setup and less 'flexible' than loop-AES (the changing |
| 11 |
>> passphrase thing, for example). |
| 12 |
> |
| 13 |
> I know it is in the kernes, but I've read that there weren't good userland |
| 14 |
> tool to work with dm-crypt. |
| 15 |
|
| 16 |
Well, there's only cryptsetup. It does all that's needed, is easy |
| 17 |
to use and flexible enough (for me). |
| 18 |
|
| 19 |
What's bad about cryptsetup? |
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
> Maybe that has changed and Gentoo's userland |
| 22 |
> tools can work with dm-crypt, what's the status of that ? |
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
? |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
>> Well, technically, anything can be cracked given enough time and |
| 27 |
>> computing power. |
| 28 |
> Yes, ok. I should have added a 'practically' there somewhere. |
| 29 |
|
| 30 |
Yep. And passphrases are *practically* just as unbreakable - if |
| 31 |
they are long and difficult enough. Like: |
| 32 |
|
| 33 |
b^m&oe-.bw28Ge^[3Ru:M&{0KR[es<~#$TY~VRe+jJ{t0Ko+VSUeuW$e?'@hj!=]I^fa.lJ;&lh4z}?-D5xBQ)"F!W7fZ%X;7j'x[-:&*_yZ6aGw`ZdIu-z|@,;3rP4'+np]pis47I;\9z|SqLHHhv |
| 34 |
|
| 35 |
Alexander Skwar |
| 36 |
-- |
| 37 |
A man is like a rusty wheel on a rusty cart, |
| 38 |
He sings his song as he rattles along and then he falls apart. |
| 39 |
-- Richard Thompson |
| 40 |
-- |
| 41 |
gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
Archives