Re: Switch to XTS mode for LUKS in cryptsetup in 1.6.0 (Was Re: [ANNOUNCE] cryptsetup 1.6.0-rc1)

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On 01/04/2013 12:50 PM, Milan Broz wrote:
> On 12/29/2012 10:40 PM, Milan Broz wrote:
>> The testing release candidate cryptsetup 1.6.0-rc1 is available at
>>
>>    http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/
>>
>> Feedback and bug reports are welcomed.
>>
>> Cryptsetup 1.6.0 Release Notes (RC1)
> 
> 
> I am going to do one more important change to final 1.6.0:
> change LUKS _default_ cipher to aes-xts-plain64 with 512bits key.
> 
> Most of recent disk encryption systems switched already to XTS mode,
> also it is preferred by standards (and we are using it for very long
> time in Fedora/RHEL during installations.)

+1 for the RHEL6 standard, thx!

Z.

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