TwoFish and SAP - How?

[Markus Hubig]

On Sat, 06 Nov 2004, bengt wrote:

> | The ubuntu Howto seems just to talk about a 'cryptolooped' fs. But today
> | there's a mutch cleaner solution using dm-crypt. The dm-crypt module needed
> | is already included in the default ubuntu-Kernel.
> |
> | Just install cryptsetup and read:
> |
> | * /usr/share/doc/cryptsetup/CryptoRoot.HowTo
> | * http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/
> | * http://www.saout.de/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php
> 
> Thanks I will definitely give this a try.  Will I have to enter a
> password before I can access the encrypted file system or?

Yes. Maybe you can store a keyfile somewhere (floppy/cdrom/smartcard/hd)
and use this to access your encrypted file system ...
 
> Is TwoFish the recommended algorithm or another one?

Recommended is aes but there are a lot more solutions like blowfish,
twofish or des (see "modprobe -l |grep crypto").

> Anyone have any experience with SAP software on Linux?

For God's sake, no!

   - Markus

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