Re: Harddisk encryption with geli: key's block size

2007-10-27 Thread RW
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:40:00 +0200 "Thomas Hobbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to encrypt my mobile computer's data-partition with a > passphrase, 128 bit AES and HMAC/MD5. A lot of people use different > block sizes to generate keys with dd. There are examples with block > sizes

Harddisk encryption with geli: key's block size

2007-10-27 Thread Thomas Hobbes
Hi, I want to encrypt my mobile computer's data-partition with a passphrase, 128 bit AES and HMAC/MD5. A lot of people use different block sizes to generate keys with dd. There are examples with block sizes of 64, 32k and 128k in geli's man-page, but I couldn't find out why they were used. Spideri