On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:15 AM, domiel <domiel42@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > The thing I'm still not understanding is why the master key needs salting + > iteration; for a password/phrase this makes perfect sense, but I was under the > impression that the master key is derived from /dev/random (or /dev/urandom ?) [...] Looking at source code (luks/random.c) seems that cryptsetup uses /dev/urandom. I think I should be better to switch to /dev/random. -- 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
