[luau] Help needed with Loopback Encrypted Filesystems

Ho'ala Greevy hoala at secretbonus.com
Mon Sep 22 22:28:01 PDT 2003


thx guys, that's what I was looking for.


PS- Congrats to Warren & fellow Fedorians, today's announcement was quite
uncanny!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/1712227&mode=thread&tid=106&tid=110&tid=185&tid=187
Ho'ala


Nicholas E. Walker said:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 05:03:32PM -0500, MonMotha wrote:
> [snip]
>> Nope, root doesn't matter at all.  You *need* that crypto key.  If you
>> lost  the key, there is no way to retrieve the data short of attacking
>> the crypto  (and twofish is pretty damn strong).
>
> Well, the only "good news" is that the twofish key is generated from a
> much weaker password.  It would make the most sense to attack the
> password (actually it would make the most sense to attack the person
> who picked the password, but I'm guessing that's not an option)....


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