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Date:      Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:51:27 +0200
From:      =?UTF-8?Q?I=C3=B1igo_Ortiz_de_Urbina?= <inigoortizdeurbina@gmail.com>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org,  freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Recent GELI additions.
Message-ID:  <AANLkTikOXybj1Bu5ToNd-gtj4W7uwr4c71QRqe%2Bx8ku6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100925174929.GD47356@garage.freebsd.pl>
References:  <20100925174929.GD47356@garage.freebsd.pl>

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Indeed, truly impressive work. geli makes encryption a bliss :)

Thank you very much pjd@!

On 9/25/10, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'd like to inform about three new features in GELI available in HEAD:
>
> 1. AES-XTS encryption. XTS mode is a standard that is recommended these
>    days for storage encryption. This is the default now. AES-XTS support
>    was also added to opencrypto framework and aesni(4) driver.
>
> 2. Multiple encryption keys. GELI will use one encryption key for at
>    most 2^20 blocks (sectors), as it is not recommended to use the same
>    encryption key for too much data. It generates keys array from the
>    master key on attach and uses it accordingly. This is the default now.
>
> 3. Passphrase can now be loaded from a file (-J and -j options).
>
> --
> Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheelsystems.com
> pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
> FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
>



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