On 21.06.2007 11:21:23, coderman wrote: > On 6/21/07, Benjamin Schieder <blindcoder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >... Although, I never used truecrypt. As for now > >I use cryptsetup-luks to set up encryption. > > you may want to consider loop-aes instead. [0] i'll try to avoid a > flame war here, but dm-crypt/luks has some deficiencies [1] which may > or may not be of concern. if you do use dm-crypt/luks, make sure you > have a recent version. (pref. 2.6.20+). ROCKate currently runs on 2.6.21.3 so I guess it's fine. > truecrypt is free and open, and pretty decent, particularly if you > want win32 support. > > best regards, > > 0. key management is usually more difficult for loop-aes and the keys > (multi-v3) are also larger. that said, the key schedule and key > scrubbing in loop-aes are preferable to the others IMHO. Key management is an implementation detail and should be of no concern to ROCKate users. > 1. cryptoloop, dm-crypt, bestcrypt, truecrypt, and loop-aes - Why > cryptoloop should not be used. > http://mareichelt.de/pub/texts.cryptoloop.php Last update is over a year old. Which parts do apply to todays kernel? Greetings, Benjamin -- Go away, or I will replace you with a very small shellscript! http://shellscripts.org/
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