[Mageia-dev] Mageia cypher encryption proposal

Simple W simplew8 at gmail.com
Sat May 5 11:12:38 CEST 2012


Hi,

In Mageia 2 install the default cypher now used is aes-xts-benbi but
this cypher is not mostly support, specially in Windows apps, for
example FreeOTFE and TrueCryp do not support it.

Having this wouldnt be better to have some kind of option in Mageia 2
install so that the user could choose a cypher that is supported by
other apps and not use the single cypher aes-xts-benbi?

Like things are now im forced (after isntall Mageia 2") to edit
/usr/lib/DrakX/ds/dmcrypt.pm and replace aes-xts-benbi with
aes-xtl-plain and recreate the encrypted partitions so that i can
access them when for example running windows.

This in Mageia 1 wasnt a problem because was used another cypher that
was support by other apps.


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