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Chris Walters <cjw2004d@×××××××.net> at Monday 23 June 2008, 17:46:23 |
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> Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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> | Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Chris Walters: |
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> |> 3. Number and type of ciphers available |
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> | Maybe I'm wrong, but the name loop-aes tells this, right? With LUKS, |
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> | one can use (nearly?) any cipher/hash supported by the kernel. |
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> [snip] |
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> | Gentoo has support for both. Big plus of LUKS is the ability to assign |
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> | more than one key (so my wife can boot the laptop with her own key). |
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> | HTH... |
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> | Dirk |
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> Actually, there are extra ciphers available for use with loop-aes. |
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Does it matter? AES is on of the best algorithms available, there is no |
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reason to change to another. |
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> I might try LUKS. Does it have support for multi-key encryption? |
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Yes, it has. |
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> How about random key encryption? |
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That's not a matter of the encryption software itself, random keys should be |
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possible with any encryption thing out there. |
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Actually, multi-key encryption somehow requires random keys. In such a |
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setup, there is a random master key, which itself is ciphered with the |
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individual user keys. When adding or removing user keys, the software |
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stores a individually encrypted copy of the random master key (or removes |
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it). |
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Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. |
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(Rosa Luxemburg) |
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