[Mageia-dev] unable to mount encrypted partitions created with drakdisk

Thu Mar 22 04:23:21 CET 2012

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:41:00 -0400, simple w8 <simplew8 at gmail.com> wrote:
+
+> But i think it would be better to have in diskdrake some option
+> allowing the user to choose the cypher, since the default cypher used
+> in cryptsetup and in other apps that support luks, is cbc, and this
+> way diskdrake is putting it incompatible with remaning apps that
+> support luks.
+
+Agreed.  Go ahead and write a patch! :-)
+
+Sorry, but my perl knowledge is very limited.  Looking through the
+code, I can usually figure out what it's doing,  I was able to
+create the patch that simply added the --cipher option to the existing
+code in diskdrake, but altering the dialog to add selection of which
+cipher to use, would probably take me a very long time.
+
+You should probably open an enhancement bug report, requesting the
+change, that can then be assigned to the diskdrake maintainer.
+
+Btw, I had no idea that luks encryption was compatible with truecrypt.
+Thanks for that info.
+
+Regards, Dave Hodgins
+