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

Thu Mar 29 01:00:04 CEST 2012

2012/3/21 David W. Hodgins <davidwhodgins at gmail.com>:
+> On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:57:47 -0400, simple w8 <simplew8 at gmail.com> wrote:
+>
+>> Hi,
+>>
+>> I use sometimes to boo Windows, and if i need some file i use to mount
+>> my /home encrypted partition using FreeOTFE (or TrueCrypt) to access
+>> the files i need, but i saw today that the /home partition that was
+>> created in mageia is not possible to mount with FreeOTFE or TrueCrypt.
+>>
+>> But the /home partition created with mandriva drakdisk can be mounted
+>> with those 2 applications, so seams that Mageia drakdisk isnt doing
+>> something right.
+>
+>
+> That's likely a result of
+> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3092
+>
+> With the default settings, cryptsetup uses cbc mode encryption,
+> which makes it much more likely that it can be cracked.
+>
+> See http://clemens.endorphin.org/nmihde/nmihde-A4-os.pdf
+> for an explanation of how this is done.
+>
+> In Mageia's diskdrake, the setting is overridden to use xts mode,
+> instead of cbc mode.
+
+Something is not right, Free-OTFE says is does support xts but its not
+being able to mount the partitions encrypted in Mageia, what can be
+the cause?
+
+You may see the FreeOTFE supported cypher modes here:
+http://www.freeotfe.org/docs/Main/Linux_volumes.htm
+