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 :-) :-)
