Hi, I would like to ask a question that is maybe a dumb question, but I dont find an answer for it. I type mount /dev/hda1 to mount my encrypted filesystem. it asks for a password. If I fail to type the password, than it writes mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, or too many mounted file systems ... blablabla. that did took me 1 second. If it was a program it would take less than a second to type 1 password. so it somebody begins to make a brute force attack against my encrypted filesystem it wouldnt take him so much time no? what protects my filesystem agaoinst these type of brute for attacks? brute forcing against an ssh connection is quite hard because the sshd waits some seconds before allowing to type a password again. but at mounting time there is nothing like this. could somebody explain me this a bit? regards, greg - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
