Re: dm-crypt using kthread (was: Oopsing cryptoapi (or loop device?) on 2.6.*)

[Matthias Urlichs]

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..?

-- 
Matthias Urlichs
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