On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 12:45:48PM -0500, Scott Castaline wrote: [...] > Third, I've been reading the discussion on the different encryption > ciphers from the Aug 2009 archive and am thinking of using > serpent-cbc-essiv:sha256. Would this be suitable for a 1TB drive? Yes. Although there really is no reason to avoid AES. If it has a backdoor, the portential economic damage would far outweight the gains, so it is highly unlikely that there is one. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
