[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#455508: Bug#455508: cryptsetup: should add blowfish, serpent and twofish to initrd

[David Härdeman]

On Mon, December 10, 2007 16:07, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> The installer allows to choose crypt algorhitm (aes, twofish,
> blowfish, serpent) but cryptsetup copies to initrd only one of them:
> aes.
>
> I.e. for slow CPU systems the blowfish alghorims seems to be a better
> choise.

I'm not quite sure I understand. If you setup a blowfish crypto device in
/etc/crypttab, then the blowfish module will be copied to the initramfs.
The unconditional copying of aes is just there as a safety net.

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David Härdeman