Re: Re-encrypting using multi-key (was Re: Upgrading to a 2.6Kernel on a Loop-AES Machine)

[Grant Stephenson <grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So does this Multikey mode require more resources?  I am running on only
a 700 mhz laptop, and wonder if multikey would slow it down any.


On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 04:41, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> Grant Stephenson wrote:
> > By the way you changed the subject, are you saying I have to re-encrypt
> > the file system? It was already encrypted with a 2.4.22 kernel.
> 
> Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen's watermark attack broke single-key mode.
> 
> If a file system was encrypted in single-key mode, then it should be
> re-encrypted in multi-key mode to have better resistance against watermark
> attack.


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