Hi all, I've recently finished setting up our new file server, whose largest filesystem is 2.5TB in size; ext3 on dm-crypt (aes-256-xts) on lvm on md-raid5. The setup seems fine, but googling for an unrelated performance problem brought to light some disconcerting news: 1) xts becomes more insecure the larger the encrypted volume is and is thus not recommended for volumes >1TB. Great. How bad is this in my case on a "makes cracking the encryption easier in theory" -- "any scriptkiddie can do it in 5 seconds" scale? 2) Something about *-plain being 32 bit only and thus limited to 2TB. What happens to data over 2TB? Less secure, not encrypted at all, kiss it goodbye? I can't recreate the mapping with different settings easily, since I've already copied the data over and dismantled the old server but of course everything depends on how bad this is ... Thank you for your help Chris _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
