On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 22:44:53 CET, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 27.02.2014, Milan Broz wrote: > > > * Add internal "whirlpool_gcryptbug hash" for accessing flawed > > Whirlpool hash in gcrypt (requires gcrypt 1.6.1 or above). > > > > The gcrypt version of Whirlpool hash algorithm was flawed in some > > situations. > > Just to be shure: if I create an encrypted partition using > the whirlpool hash algorithm with recent cryptsetup / libgcrypt, > does it have its full strength? As far as I understand this, yes. The old version in libgcrypt was flawed, the repair hence breaks old headers created with it. The caveat in FAQ item 8.3 does still applies though. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. - Plato _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
