[Mageia-dev] Mageia cypher encryption proposal

Simple W simplew8 at gmail.com
Sat May 5 23:03:21 CEST 2012


2012/5/5 David W. Hodgins <davidwhodgins at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, 05 May 2012 05:12:38 -0400, Simple W <simplew8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> I'll submit a bug report with the proposed patch, as an update for
> rpmdrake, after Mageia 2 is out.  While it's a very minor change,
> as I found out from the prior change, minor changes can have
> unexpected effects.
>
> The prior change worked fine on an installed system (I've been using
> it since 2008), but caused unexpected problems in the installer, as
> the xts module had to be explicitly loaded.
>
> Regards, Dave Hodgins

But with be better if users could choose from a cypher list, like it
happens for example in debian installer, and not have a single one to
handle encrypted partitions.


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