Re: cryptsetup FAQ montly posting 2/2011

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On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 04:38:22PM +0100, Milan Broz wrote:
> On 02/11/2011 02:44 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 14:42 +0100, Arno Wagner wrote:
> >> Hmm. Does some distro use XTS mode with 512 bit keys as
> >> default? Which one?
> > Perhaps not distros, but I guess there are quite a few people using XTS
> > with two 256 bit keys.
> 
> Even distros, Fedora and RHEL6 installers are using XTS with 512bit
> keys (thus AES256).
> 
> (It is not crytpsetup default there, installer overrides it
> when encrypted install is selected.)
> 
> Milan

Ok, thanks. I will add a warning about non-default parameters
and also give the numbers for 512 bit in the layout section
and in the explanation on how to overwrite the keyslots.

Arno
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