antlists wrote:
On
07/06/2020 10:07, antlists wrote:
I think it was LWN, there was an
interesting article on crypto recently.
https://lwn.net/Articles/821544/
Cheers,
Wol
Looks like they are getting ready to toss sha1 overboard. If it is
not secure, they should. At least most people who should know,
already know it is not secure. I didn't have the details but I knew
something was hacked and asked to be sure. I ended up using a AES
one. I did set up, using zulucrypt at the moment, to encrypt a 3TB
external hard drive. So far, it is working fine. I've closed it a
few times and opened it a few times.
The one thing I have not figure out yet, about to look into it, how
to mount it to a place I pick. It's likely a setting I haven't
noticed yet but I'll find it. Still not ready to even think of
doing /home yet tho. That's a doozy. I guess first I'd have to
move everything off the drives it's currently on, encrypt that drive
and then move everything back. Another thing, having a secure
password that is easy to type and remember but can't be guesses.
Anyone remember the thread when I came up with a password for PGP
and LastPass a year or so ago??? It took me a month to accomplish
that but it is a good one. Then I got a cell phone. Easy to type
on the keyboard, not so much on the cell phone tho. Still, it works
well. It is a good one. Good luck to anyone trying to guess it or
even hack it. lol
I wish my other drive would have worked. I'd like to be able to
compare things. They are both the same brand and size. Likely even
the same model. But it has some serious issues. Even smartctrl was
having trouble chatting with the drive. That's bad.
May redo the drive but with command line tools this go around. Just
for giggles.
Thanks again.
Dale
:-) :-)