On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Arno Wagner <arno@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Incidentially, actually proving some data is encrypted is not possible > from the encrypted data itself, e.g. when using dm-crypt. (With LUKS > there is the header, which may be enough to convince a court.) If I've right understood what you mean, using LUKS the security of the system decreases, because the presence of the header is enough to demonstrate that an encrypted content is present. So... why use LUKS and not directly cryptsetup *without* LUKS extensions? -- Lurkos --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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