[Discuss] Full disk encryption

[Tom Metro]

Daniel Feenberg wrote:
> Tom Metro wrote:
>> What tool do they use?
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Implementing_LUKS_Disk_Encryption#Introduction_to_LUKS
>   Fedora 9's default implementation of LUKS is AES 128 with a SHA256
>   hashing.

I'm assuming they're using an existing OSS encryption project and didn't
invent their own. According to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Key_Setup

LUKS is a specification to facilitate interoperability between
encryption software. It says dm-crypt is the reference implementation of
LUKS on Linux:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dm-crypt

The Fedora article makes no mention of dm-crypt, but does reference
cryptsetup, which is built on dm-crypt (so it seems):
http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/

 -Tom

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