Re: dm-crypt and gpg

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Boyd Waters <bwaters+mac@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> But probably would NOT protect against watermark (which is 
> chosen-plaintext attack). Problem there is the treatment of the 
> per-sector password for the block encryption: loop-AES runs through a 
> number of iterations, dm-crypt and cryptoloop do not.

Why do you stick with dm-crypt?

After reading about the weaknesses of dm-crypt and cryptoloop I
switched to loop-AES, and wrote an article about the issue so that I
wouldn't have to tell friends the same story over and over again.


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