Re: [gentoo-user] Luks: Which cipher to use

2009-09-09 Thread Marco
Hi Mike, Thanks for your very detailed description and explanation! On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 11:21:12 +0200 > Marco wrote: [...] > ESSIV, on the other hand, uses the hash of these counters with the key > itself to salt IV, so it seem to rule o

Re: [gentoo-user] Luks: Which cipher to use

2009-09-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 11:21:12 +0200 Marco wrote: > I am about to encrypt my external hard drive. I found the howtos > http://de.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/DM-Crypt and > http://de.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/DM-Crypt/Daten-Partition_verschl%C3%BCsseln > (sorry, German...). They give a good understanding of how

Re: [gentoo-user] LUKS

2006-01-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/10/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 10 January 2006 07:13, Cláudio Henrique > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] LUKS': > > What about the performance, is it too different from plain partition > > usage?

Re: [gentoo-user] LUKS

2006-01-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 14:31 schrieb ext Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > > What about the performance, is it too different from plain partition > > usage? > > I never noticed the difference when I was using aes-loop on a 2GHz > laptop. That said, it will depend on the algorithm you choose and the C

Re: [gentoo-user] LUKS

2006-01-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 14:13 schrieb ext Cláudio Henrique: > On 1/9/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I used on any of my HDs, will I be able to update them? > > > > What do you mean? If you mean changing the password, yes. > > I mean updating my system (emerge -u world) o

Re: [gentoo-user] LUKS

2006-01-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 07:13, Cláudio Henrique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] LUKS': > On 1/9/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I used on any of my HDs, will I be able to update them? > > > > What do you

Re: [gentoo-user] LUKS

2006-01-10 Thread Cláudio Henrique
On 1/9/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I used on any of my HDs, will I be able to update them? > > What do you mean? If you mean changing the password, yes. > I mean updating my system (emerge -u world) once I put it on a cyphered partition. > > What if the > > data of some

Re: [gentoo-user] LUKS

2006-01-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 09 January 2006 10:57, Cláudio Henrique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] LUKS': > has anybody here used LUKS? I haven't, but when I next create an encrypted pv/lv, I will be. > If I used on any of my HDs, will I be able to update them? What do you mean by update? LUKS

Re: [gentoo-user] LUKS

2006-01-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/9/06, Cláudio Henrique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > has anybody here used LUKS? I'm using it on my AMD system. > If I used on any of my HDs, will I be able to update them? What do you mean? If you mean changing the password, yes. > What if the > data of some file gets corrupted, will I lo