[CentOS] dm-crypt/LUKS the state of the art for block device encryption?

Tue Feb 2 18:39:48 UTC 2010
Lucian @ lastdot.org <lucian at lastdot.org>

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>  it's been a while since i've played with filesystem encryption so,
> on centos 5.4 (and other linux distros), is dm-crypt/LUKS considered
> to be the state of the art WRT encryption?  i remember other solutions
> like loop-aes and others, but what's considered the gold standard
> these days?
>
> rday
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Got one Centos PC and one Mandriva laptop running luks for a couple of
years, work great, never had a problem!