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From: Chris Walters <cjw2004d@comcast.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:46:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <485FC54F.5040203@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806231345.01323.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com>

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Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
| Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Chris Walters:
[snip]
|> 3. Number and type of ciphers available
|
| Maybe I'm wrong, but the name loop-aes tells this, right? With LUKS, one can
| use (nearly?) any cipher/hash supported by the kernel.
[snip]
| Gentoo has support for both. Big plus of LUKS is the ability to assign more
| than one key (so my wife can boot the laptop with her own key).
|
| HTH...
|
| 	Dirk

Actually, there are extra ciphers available for use with loop-aes.  Just can't
figure out how to compile them with the loop-aes kernel patch, yet.

I might try LUKS.  Does it have support for multi-key encryption?  How about
random key encryption?

Regards,
Chris
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-23 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-23 10:26 [gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ??? Chris Walters
2008-06-23 10:45 ` Rumen Yotov
2008-06-23 11:45 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-06-23 15:46   ` Chris Walters [this message]
2008-06-23 17:14     ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-06-23 18:21     ` Sebastian Wiesner
2008-06-27  3:41 ` [gentoo-user] " 7v5w7go9ub0o
2008-06-27 13:08   ` Sebastian Wiesner
2008-06-27 17:19     ` 7v5w7go9ub0o
2008-06-27 20:46       ` Dirk Heinrichs

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