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

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Hi!

> 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.
> ...

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

Thanks!  It was exactly what I was searching for.

> Appendix B.1

Reading, I take that as a 'yes'.

So for random keys, not human pass phrases, it would indeed be
interesting to have something with more output bits.  For the
paranoid. :-)

**Henrik

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