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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] encrypted filesystems -- LUKS versus eCryptfs?

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] encrypted filesystems -- LUKS versus eCryptfs?
  • From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb [ at ] tricolour [ dot ] net>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 12:27:55 -0500
On 14/01/02, Alex Pilon wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Alex Pilon <alp [ at ] alexpilon [ dot ] ca> wrote:
> > > LUKS will randomly generate (and salt if I recall correctly) a
> > > master secret, and provide ten ???slots??? for weaker secrets (e.g.,
> > > passwords, passphrases, or binary data of your chosing), which it'll
> > > run through PBKDF2.
> > 
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 09:43:41AM -0500, Martin Hicks wrote:
> > This is close, but there is no "weaker" secret.
> 
> I meant ???likely weaker user-provided secret to unlock another secret???,
> given that it's usually human-generated, not ???entirely randomly???
> generated.

Given my luck at trying to remember some LUKS, PGP and SSH private key
passphrases recently, I'm starting to wonder if that's reversed!  :P

	slainte mhath, RGB

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