Bug#482092: partman-crypto: xts support

2012-07-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 03:11:00PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > We only want to support plain64 for Wheezy. > There is. You need at least 256 bit (128 for encryption, 128 for XTS). I commited support for xts-plain64 to partman-crypto. It will just double the key size used for xts, so no additiona

Bug#482092: partman-crypto: xts support

2012-06-28 Thread Philipp Kern
Matt, am Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 01:27:02PM -0700 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > Bastian Blank writes: > > We only want to support plain64 for Wheezy. > I assume you mean "for wheezy we just want the d-i partman-crypto UI to > support selecting xts-plain64 and not xts-plain"? > > The kernel suppo

Bug#482092: partman-crypto: xts support

2012-06-28 Thread Matt Taggart
Bastian Blank writes: > We only want to support plain64 for Wheezy. I assume you mean "for wheezy we just want the d-i partman-crypto UI to support selecting xts-plain64 and not xts-plain"? The kernel support will still be there and you'll be able to mount an existing xts-plain based filesyste

Bug#482092: partman-crypto: xts support

2012-06-23 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:15:36PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > So there's nothing special about key sizes with xts as stated basically at the > top of the bug report? There is. You need at least 256 bit (128 for encryption, 128 for XTS). > Also I guess one should support xts-plain64 too? Is the

Bug#482092: partman-crypto: xts support

2012-06-23 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 04:30:11PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: > If so, then I think all that's needed is to add xts-plain to > > debian-installer/packages/partman-crypto/ciphers/dm-crypt/ivalgorithm > > Sound correct? So there's nothing special about key sizes with xts as stated basically at the

Bug#482092: partman-crypto: xts support

2012-06-22 Thread Matt Taggart
Hi #482092, I am pinging this bug because I would really like to see xts in wheezy. We (riseup.net) have been using serpent:xts-plain for our systems for both lenny and squeeze and it works great. Until now we have had to do some hacking to get d-i to set it up, * drop to a shell * wget the xts.ko