fix typos

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Francesco Turco
2020-07-03 17:52:48 +02:00
committed by Milan Broz
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Just follow the on-screen instructions.
Note: Passprase iteration count is based on time and hence security
Note: Passphrase iteration count is based on time and hence security
level depends on CPU power of the system the LUKS container is created
on. For example on a Raspberry Pi and LUKS1, I found some time ago that
the iteration count is 15 times lower than for a regular PC (well, for
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ A. Contributors
That is it. Reboot or start it manually to activate encrypted swap.
Manual start would look like this:
/etc/init.d/crypdisks start
/etc/init.d/cryptdisks start
swapon /dev/mapper/swap
@@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ A. Contributors
The conventional recommendation if you want to do more than just a
zero-wipe is to use something like
cat /dev/urandom > <taget-device>
cat /dev/urandom > <target-device>
That used to very slow and painful at 10-20MB/s on a fast computer, but
newer kernels can give you > 200MB/s (depending on hardware). An
@@ -2828,7 +2828,7 @@ offset length name data type description
there to prevent precomputation.
The problem with that is that if you use a graphics card, you can massively
speed up these computations as PBKDF2 needs very little memeory to compute
speed up these computations as PBKDF2 needs very little memory to compute
it. A graphics card is (grossly simplified) a mass of small CPUs with some
small very fast local memory per CPU and a large slow memory (the 4/6/8 GB
a current card may have). If you can keep a computation in the small,
@@ -2841,7 +2841,7 @@ offset length name data type description
if you set, for example, 4GB of memory, computing Argon2 on a graphics card
with around 100kB of memory per "CPU" makes no sense at all because it is
far too slow. An attacker has hence to use real CPUs and furthermore is
limited by main memory bandwith.
limited by main memory bandwidth.
Hence the large amount of memory used is a security feature and should not
be turned off or reduced. If you really (!) understand what you are doing