bumblebee bat
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Joined: Aug. 2006 |
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Posted: Aug. 06 2006,00:47 |
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The version of loop-aes included in the latest DSL requires that passwords have at least 20 characters. This is retarded for many reasons:
- Although 20 characters might be needed to make full use of the 128-bit key space, shorter passwords can be secure.
- It's ok to *warn* a user, but software shouldn't *prevent* a user from doing something.
- DSL can't access an encrypted partition that was created with a short password by another distro.
Reproducing the problem:
in a root shell type: losetup -e aes /dev/loop0 /dev/[some partition]
Password: [type a short password]
"error: password must be at least 20 characters"
This can probably be fixed by upgrading the version of loop-aes used by DSL (1.6i-1) to the latest version (3.1d) which they claim works with 2.0-2.6 kernels.
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