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Hodgins <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">davidwhodgins at gmail.com</A>>: +</I>>><i> On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:57:47 -0400, simple w8 <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">simplew8 at gmail.com</A>> wrote: +</I>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Hi, +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> I use sometimes to boo Windows, and if i need some file i use to mount +</I>>>><i> my /home encrypted partition using FreeOTFE (or TrueCrypt) to access +</I>>>><i> the files i need, but i saw today that the /home partition that was +</I>>>><i> created in mageia is not possible to mount with FreeOTFE or TrueCrypt. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> But the /home partition created with mandriva drakdisk can be mounted +</I>>>><i> with those 2 applications, so seams that Mageia drakdisk isnt doing +</I>>>><i> something right. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> That's likely a result of +</I>>><i> <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3092">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3092</A> +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> With the default settings, cryptsetup uses cbc mode encryption, +</I>>><i> which makes it much more likely that it can be cracked. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> See <A HREF="http://clemens.endorphin.org/nmihde/nmihde-A4-os.pdf">http://clemens.endorphin.org/nmihde/nmihde-A4-os.pdf</A> +</I>>><i> for an explanation of how this is done. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> In Mageia's diskdrake, the setting is overridden to use xts mode, +</I>>><i> instead of cbc mode. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Something is not right, Free-OTFE says is does support xts but its not +</I>><i> being able to mount the partitions encrypted in Mageia, what can be +</I>><i> the cause? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> You may see the FreeOTFE supported cypher modes here: +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://www.freeotfe.org/docs/Main/Linux_volumes.htm">http://www.freeotfe.org/docs/Main/Linux_volumes.htm</A> +</I> +I have been looking to the supported cyphers and hashes in FreeOTFE +and i see that the cypher XTS with keysize 512 is not supported, +however supports keysizes 128,192,256 and 1024. + +You have chosen thekeysize 512 thats the one is not supported under +the FreeOTFE project... +Isnt possible to change the keysize to a value that can be supported +under Windows? +</PRE> + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="013632.html">[Mageia-dev] unable to mount encrypted partitions created with drakdisk +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="013697.html">[Mageia-dev] unable to mount encrypted partitions created with drakdisk +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#13635">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#13635">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#13635">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#13635">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |