On 14/01/02, Alex Pilon wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Alex Pilon <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > LUKS will randomly generate (and salt if I recall correctly) a
> > > master secret, and provide ten ???slots??? for weaker secrets (e.g.,
> > > passwords, passphrases, or binary data of your chosing), which it'll
> > > run through PBKDF2.
> >
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 09:43:41AM -0500, Martin Hicks wrote:
> > This is close, but there is no "weaker" secret.
>
> I meant ???likely weaker user-provided secret to unlock another secret???,
> given that it's usually human-generated, not ???entirely randomly???
> generated.
Given my luck at trying to remember some LUKS, PGP and SSH private key
passphrases recently, I'm starting to wonder if that's reversed! :P
slainte mhath, RGB
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