Re: Possibility of hash function besides SHA-1 in future LUKS revisions?

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ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pkcs/pkcs-5v2/pkcs5v2-0.pdf

Appendix B.1

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:23 AM, Henrik Theiling <theiling@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
>  As SHA1 produces 160 bit hashes, is it so that hashing the pass phrase
>  reduces the overall strength to 160 bits despite the master key being,
>  say, AES with 256 bits?  In that case, SHA-256 would indeed be quite
>  cool.
...

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