On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:28:03PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 23:01 +0200, Arno Wagner wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:47:43PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > > On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 10:53 +0200, Arno Wagner wrote: > > > > > Well but as far as I understand, this means that the same IV could be > > > > > used in multiple sectors (after the 32bit), right? > > > > Err, no? That would be "after 64 bit". > > > > > > Uhm why? If we have 64, bits but the upper 32 are masked 0 as far as I > > > understood... ? > > > > For plain. Not for plain64, i.e. plain is plain 64 with 32 bits > > masked and plain64 is full 64 bits. > Yeah that's what I meant,.. did I write plain64? Hmm. I think so, but I am not sure anymore. Anyways, plain64 solves the problem. Incidentially I have kernel 2.6.34 (and now 2.6.34.1) running on several different machines without any problem, and it has plain64. Not that I have a disk large enough to need it ;-) 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
