Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Monday 23 June 2008, 17:46:23 > 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.
Does it matter? AES is on of the best algorithms available, there is no
reason to change to another.
> I might try LUKS. Does it have support for multi-key encryption?
Yes, it has.
> How about random key encryption?
That's not a matter of the encryption software itself, random keys should be
possible with any encryption thing out there.
Actually, multi-key encryption somehow requires random keys. In such a
setup, there is a random master key, which itself is ciphered with the
individual user keys. When adding or removing user keys, the software
stores a individually encrypted copy of the random master key (or removes
it).
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