Re: dm-crypt, new IV and standards

From: James Morris
Date: Fri Feb 20 2004 - 16:27:35 EST


On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Jean-Luc Cooke wrote:

> 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?

Please focus your recommendations on security, not backward compatibility
with something that is new to the kernel tree, broken and maintainerless.

Thanks,


- James
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James Morris
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