Re: Re-encrypting using multi-key (was Re: Upgrading to a 2.6Kernel on a Loop-AES Machine)

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Grant Stephenson wrote:
> By the way you changed the subject, are you saying I have to re-encrypt
> the file system? It was already encrypted with a 2.4.22 kernel.

Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen's watermark attack broke single-key mode.

If a file system was encrypted in single-key mode, then it should be
re-encrypted in multi-key mode to have better resistance against watermark
attack.

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