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Bug#482092: partman-crypto: xts support



On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:15:36PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> So there's nothing special about key sizes with xts as stated basically at the
> top of the bug report? 

There is. You need at least 256 bit (128 for encryption, 128 for XTS).

> Also I guess one should support xts-plain64 too? Is there any value in offering
> xts-plain at this point, shouldn't we go to 64bit sector numbers directly?
> Upstream even says that there's no performance penalty.

We only want to support plain64 for Wheezy.

Bastian

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