Re: Entropy available for luksFormat during GNU/Linux installs

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On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Arno Wagner <arno@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On the otehr hand, how much key material are we talking here
> with the master key? If it is less than 600 bytes, using
> /dev/random directly would be better than obtaining 600
> seed bytes and thens starting the gcrypt generator to actually
> get less randomness from it.

For master keys we're only talking likely in the range of 16-64 bytes,
defaulting to 32 bytes currently.

Regards,

-- Roscoe
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