At Sun, 9 Mar 2008 21:51:07 +0000 (UTC), Alex Elsayed <eternaleye@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, I was just wondering if there would ever be an option to use a hash function > other than SHA-1 for a LUKS device. NIST has deprecated SHA-1 since I > personally would like to be able to use Whirlpool or the SHA-2 variants, and I > am sure there are others who would appreciate being able to choose the hash > function. >From the specification of the LUKS header, there shouldn't be a problem. It's just that it's not implemented, and that my PBKDF2 implementation is at the moment hardwired to SHA1. But that's just a matter of spending more time with the code. -- Fruhwirth Clemens - http://clemens.endorphin.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
