-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christian (aka Neodaxus) wrote: > 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? i dunno. double check keymaps, typos, etc. i tried here and using "%" in a passphrase really works. > >> 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? i am no cryptoexpert, so i can only speak of my own: i still have troubles to generate a " ? " on some machines, but " % " for example is available on almost all machines. you get the point, don't you? > Thanks. I suggest to add these 2 questions and answers to the loop-AES > README mind to send a patch? > and also possibly some observation about characters which should > be avoided in the passphrase. this has nothing to do with AES and it is still unclear if my suspicion regarding "strange characters" is responsible for your problem here. try the same thing with /usr/bin/passwd and see if it is accepting "strange chacacters". Christian. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBFNbH+A7rjkF8z0wRApasAKDSmWi0omKQZIxSzfXgTcjS4FXyTwCeJJBW mVRYHTtQofuny2lWklM6wQI= =MDfJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
