Hi, thanks for your fast answer.
Raimo Niskanen schrieb: > Interesting idea, but I wonder if it is necessary... Maybe not necessary, but still something I'd like to try. So, any ideas? > Again, if I remember correctly; if your salt is random enough, > it need not be secret. It is just used to randomize your password. > > Attackers come with pre-calculated dictionaries and try > to crack your password, and if the salt is unknow to the > attacker until he/she gets into the system he/she will > have to re-calculate the whole dictionary with the > now known salt and rounds. And if the rounds is high > enough re-calculating a dictionary will not be feasible. Well, since I want to have the partition to be automagically mounted when I insert the USB stick (with the saltfile), having the HDD (with the modified mount_vnd on it) and the USB stick would be enough to decrypt it. Michael
