Re: Status in 2007 of: loop-aes VS dm-crypt VS truecrypt

Christian Kujau <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.cryptography
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On Mon, 28 May 2007, Unweitze Enweister wrote:
> Cryptsetup-luks is easier to implement and maintain, but it does reveal
> the algorithm to the adversary at the outset to anyone who examines the
> disk with a luks dump command.

With dm-crypt properly set up, that should NOT be a problem, remember:

"[...] if I take a letter and lock it in a safe, and then
  give you the safe along with the design specifications of the safe and
  a hundred identical safes with their combinations so that you and the
  world's best safecrackers can study the locking mechanism--and you
  still can't open the safe and read the letter, that's security."
         - Bruce Schneier

C.
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