[Mageia-dev] Mageia cypher encryption proposal

[David W. Hodgins]

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