Re: dm-crypt, new IV and standards

From: Jean-Luc Cooke
Date: Fri Feb 20 2004 - 12:33:05 EST



If others on the list care to do this, I'll give recommendation on how to
implement the security (hmac, salt, iteration counts, etc). But I think
this may break backward compatibility. Can anyone speak to this?

JLC


On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:20:37PM +0100, Christophe Saout wrote:
> Exactly. I like the format LVM2 uses. It basically puts the metadata
> into a text file with a magic header string there.

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