On Saturday 29 September 2001 13:06, Jonas Larsson wrote: <snip> > Is it possible to determine what crypto-type (aes, twofish, blowfish, > etc) that has been used to crypt a file by just looking in the file > examining its content? No. > If not it maybe would be possible to increase security be allowing > many different crypto-types in the system and create a small script > used for seting up the crypto-loop that takes the crypto-type as an > arg: <snip> This doesn't make the system more secure than using different (good) keys. And if one of the ciphers gets broken tomorrow, you'd best inplace-convert your loop devices to another cipher and _destroy_ all backups made with the old one. Marc -- I am Bush of USA. You will be pacified. Resistance is futile. Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
