hello, On 22/07/2009 Arno Wagner wrote: > Well, the reason that it takes more than a few miliseconds is > security related as it iterates a number of times depending > on machine speed to make brute-forcing difficult. Howver, I > do not know what the particular reason fro it to drop is. > I can only speculate that increasing keysize does reduce > iterations at 1k asd 128k i.e. at some thresholds. no, iteration time seems not to be related to keysize, i.e.: luksOpen_128b: 421102 luksOpen_512b: 420396 luksOpen_1k: 421544 luksOpen_16k: 421012 luksOpen_64k: 421619 luksOpen_128k: 420071 luksOpen_512k: 420766 luksOpen_1m: 421343 greetings, jonas
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