Re: How to compress LUKS v2 header?

Arno Wagner <[email protected]>
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Hi,

compressing the anti-forensic stripes would require breaking some 
pretty impressive crypto. In short, for all practical purposes,
compression is impossible.

Regards,
Arno

On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 21:20:44 CET, Julio Cesar Faracco - [email protected] wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to compress a LUKS v2 header file, but I'm not seeing any
> sensible reduction.
> I'm using `cryptsetup luksHeaderBackup /dev/sda2 --header-backup-file /tmp/backup.header`
> I used ZIP and GZIP, but I got 0% of reduction of `backup.header`. :-(
> Do you have any suggestions of what algorithm should be used to
> compress this type of file?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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> Julio  Cesar Faracco
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