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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: Rastaman Vibration on June 27, 2013, 10:42 pm

Title: Is LUKS encryption strong enough?
Post by: Rastaman Vibration on June 27, 2013, 10:42 pm

Tails comes with LUKS built in. Is it safe to use it to encrypt a volume?

Thanks

Title: Re: Is LUKS encryption strong enough?
Post by: astor on June 27, 2013, 11:13 pm

LUKS is the key management system (Linux Unified Key Setup). dm-crypt does the actual encryption, and it can use different ciphers. Tails uses AES 256 which is very strong. In comparison, Tor circuits use AES 128.

As always, the encryption is only as good as your password.

Title: Re: Is LUKS encryption strong enough?
Post by: Rastaman Vibration on June 27, 2013, 11:31 pm

Thanks astor!