On 1/4/06, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > because no one knows what the best is. blowfish appears to be the best > > at the moment, because its secure and fast. some other people don't like > > block sizes of 64 bit. so perhaps they take aes, which is slightly slower > > but encrypts blocks of 128 bit. is it for no reason, that swap encryption > > uses aes over blowfish? > > If you really meant what you said you should let the people that write an OS > make that decision for you. apparently there is no such thing as a general "best", only an application specific. or do you suggest there is one? why would the developers then decide to use blowfish for svnd and aes for swap? as it looks, data in swap is more secure than on svnd. known plaintext attacks are far more difficult, and no problem with replay attacks. why shouldn't I be able to have this also for storage? if that's the decision by the developers, I'd rather decide on my own.
> And just for everyone's entertainment, when was it the last time that you saw > swap being used? last year. five days ago. --knitti
