Hi!
[Christian Kujau]
try to avoid "very" special characters, char-mapping is voodoo anyway.
So even if I (when creating rootkey.gpg) press Shift+5 and on the console a % is shown (German key mapping), and before encrypting / I do the same and also a % is shown, it may happen that when using % in the password it won't work?
How can that be explained?
also they can increase the amount of time of brute-force attacks, you might have a system later on where you are unable to generate (i.e. type with your keyboard) these special characters.
Which special characters do you consider safe?
How can I change my passphrase? [...] Is there a way to create a second valid passphrase (to avoid to lock me out if the new passphrase won't work)?
[replies by Christian Kujau and Jari]
Thanks. I suggest to add these 2 questions and answers to the loop-AES README, and also possibly some observation about characters which should be avoided in the passphrase.
Regards,
Christian
- Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
