Why not just fill the encrypted volume with OTHER data? Copy a few VOBs to it until it's full, then delete them. On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 04:25 +0200, Jan Reusch wrote: > after wiping with zeros you can luksFormat the partition again (only the > header will change, this section should be wiped with dd before) > with this method you should be really on the safe side? > cu > Jan > > Roscoe schrieb: > > Sounds reasonable to me, AFAIK AES is not vunerable to known plaintext > > attacks, which is essentially what this would come down to. > > > > On 9/1/06, Andreas Grassl <andog@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > hi, i have a question: > > > > i encrypted a partition with > > > > cryptsetup -c aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 -y -s 256 luksFormat /dev/sda6 > > > > but forgot to wipe the data first :-) > > > > now i thought to write simply a zero-file on the encrypted partition to > > fill the whole space. > > > > is this stupid and opens the door to brake the cipher, or is there no > > problem?? > > > > grüsse > > > > ando > > > > > > -- > > /"\ > > \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign > > X against HTML email > > / \ > > > > >> > > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx > > For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx > > >> > > >> > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx
