On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 11:10:54PM +0200, Rapha?l Gertz wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking one more time here, to replace my cryptoloop > crypted devices, I looked the LUKS and I am playing to integrate on > mandriva and do a proper howto to use it to crypt the / and use of > initrd/initramfs.img > > I was wonderning, how is it difficult to put the support for at least > 1024/2048 aes key (256bit is realy weak today) You are confusing things: 256 bit is weak for normal RSA. But it is very strong for a symmetric block-cipher like AES. In addition, there is no good way to extend a block-cipher to a key-lenght longer than it is designed to take. On the other hand RSA or ElGamal can be done for any key-length. > Plz don't answer "code it", that's my intention, I just want to know the > difficulty, what's missing, if api of luks can handle it yet or not ? You have not understood the problem or rather is absence. Sorry. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dipl. Inform., CISSP --- CSG, ETH Zurich, wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans Windows is the "under-3" toy of the OS world. -- Matthew D. Fuller
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