On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:42:37PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Well.... > > I've just read some sections of the Standard... D4 and D6... it rather > seems that really the whole size (of the partition) is meant,... and not > just the block size... although they speak of ranges > 100 TB > > > *confused now* > > > Cheers, > Chris. I suspect that comes from only 2^128 possible cipher blocks and the birthday paradox which would give you the same cipher block twice when having around 2^64 blocks (modelled as random). 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
