Re: [OT] Interference by multiple encryption.

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Hello,

Am Sonntag, 11. Dezember 2005 02:34 schrieb Boyd Waters:
> On Dec 10, 2005, at 3:31 PM, Jan Luehr wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 20. November 2005 22:00 schrieb Christian Kujau:
> >> markus reichelt schrieb:
> >>> i faintly remember that one of these two algos, twofish or blowfish,
> >>> is not to be used for large amounts of data, like 200 GB or so. i
> >>> don't recall the speficics, only remember that there was some
> >>> kind of
[..]
> > Thus is there / will there be a loop-twofish for Linux / Unix?
>
> I used a loop-twofish for a long time.
>
> The concern about encrypting hundreds of gigabytes WITH THE SAME KEY
> is real.
>
> Right now, loop-aes can use up to 65 keys on the data. The largest
> disks I own are 400 GB, which should have about the same risk -- when
> they are completely full -- of encrypting 6 GB of data with the same
> key.

But is there some loop-aes like implemenation using twofish (with multiple key 
support, nice userland-tools, and so on)?

Keep smiling
yanosz


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