[Discuss] Full disk encryption

[feenberg at nber.org (Daniel Feenberg)]

On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, Tom Metro wrote:

> Daniel Feenberg wrote:
>> The built-in Fedora encryption is no trouble to establish...
>
> What tool do they use? Any other distributions that provide an

From

     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. Ciphers that are available are:

   AES - Advanced Encryption Standard - FIPS PUB 197
   twofish - Twofish: A 128-Bit Block Cipher
   serpent
   cast5 - RFC 2144
   cast6 - RFC 2612

> integrated solution?
>

I believe Ubuntu has the same, haven't tried it or any other distribution.

Daniel Feenberg

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