Messages in this thread | | | From | "Matthias Urlichs" <> | Date | Tue, 2 Mar 2004 00:22:48 +0100 | Subject | Re: dm-crypt using kthread (was: Oopsing cryptoapi (or loop device?) on 2.6.*) |
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Hi,
Christophe Saout: > Matthias Urlichs: > > How do I specify the encryption algorithm's bit size? AES can use 128, > > 196, or 256 bits. Gues who didn't use the default (128) when creating the > > file system on his keychain's USB thing :-/ > > Simply specify a key that is 192 bits long (24 bytes or 48 hex digits). > In other words, that's the job of the front-end program which reads the key from <wherever>.
If/when updating the documentation, please add a pointer to a frontend program that can emulate losetup <encryption> <bits> -- assuming one has been written..?
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