On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, Joel Sing wrote: > On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, Jeff Clarke wrote: > > I've read that softraid crypto uses AES256-XTS for encryption. Can the > > algorithm be changed? > > Not currently. > > > Also, how long can the passphrase be? I've red the > > faq and the manpages and didn't see anything. > > A key is derived from the passphrase using pbkdf2. This effectively allows > the passphrase to be as long as you want, although it is effectively capped > at 1024 characters due to bioctl.
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