Re: dm-crypt+LUKS

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:33:48PM -0300, Jose Damico wrote:

Could you give me your impressions about the use (only in Linux) of dm-crypt + LUKS instead of truecrypt?

For me there is no need to use my encrypted disks with OSX or Windows, so, due the last movements of truecrypt, I am planning to move my encrypted disks from truecrypt to dm-crypt + LUKS.

The design and implementation of dm-crypt + LUKS appears to be solid. The code is well maintained and your use case is well supported by distributions and other software. I haven't given it a thorough audit but at least dm-crypt has avoided many of the OMG WTF bugs and design flaws that have plagued other disk encryption systems (looking at you, ecryptfs). -andy