hi folks, hi clemens, reading http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/61/Hard_Disk_Encryption_DM-Crypt_LUKS_cryptsetup.pdf (especially figure 2) and http://luks.endorphin.org/LUKS-on-disk-format.pdf i did not really find out how the master key is generated, when a keyfile is used a'la 'cryptsetup luksFormat blockdev keyfile'. is the initial keyfile the master key or is it used to derive the master key or is - as i hope - the master key always a random number? thanx & ciao p. p.s.: excellent job, LUKS... -- Peter Palensky Vienna University of Technology Institute of Computer Technology http://www.ict.tuwien.ac.at 5th IEEE Conference on Industrial Informatics! http://www.indin2007.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
