Le Tuesday 03 July 2007 10:57:14 Nelson Batalha, vous avez écrit : > Hi, > > I would like to know how much space Luks takes in the encryp. volume. > That is, I would like to estimate, based on the device space and key > size, an upper estimative. > > > Why? Read on: > > I'm adding Gentoo Catalyst the ability to encrypt livecd's. The patches > are functional and practically finished: > > http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~nhqb/gentoo/catalyst/catalyst_luks_02.patch > http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~nhqb/gentoo/catalyst/genkernel_luks_cd2.patch > > but I'm using a very rough estimate: the cd's loop image (the thing I'm > encrypting) usually takes at most 630 megas, now I'm adding 2930*512 > bytes, not enough for livedvd's for instance, and too much for minicd's. > > BTW the luks performance, even for livecd's, is really good, thanks! > > Cheers, > Nelson > luks will not take more space than normal. luks just use a header of 512k last time i checked. (and 512k more at end if backup of luks header has been added there as suggested a while ago). Then it depend on the iso size and type. If you use a compressed filesystem you will need to compress before encrypt, because encrypted result should have a worse compression ratio. Except that, you will need the modules, the userland tool. I don't think the userland tool will take many space...
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