I've been using my own patched version of cryptsetup that allows a key entered in hex format to be interpreted as such and not hashed. My key was generated by rolling dice and has nothing to gain from hashing, but there seems to be no way to avoid hashing with LUKS formatted devices using the standard version (unless things have changed lately). I sent my patch to the Debian maintainer who said I'd have to take it to the upstream developers, but that they've been opposed to the idea in the past. Does anyone have any further insights into this issue? Dennis --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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