From 453ccd50e6a8985b28240e413da0bb077a53008c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leah Rowe
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 10:09:50 +0100
Subject: docs/gnulinux/encrypted_parabola: add iteration time to cryptsetup
command
---
docs/gnulinux/encrypted_parabola.html | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
(limited to 'docs')
diff --git a/docs/gnulinux/encrypted_parabola.html b/docs/gnulinux/encrypted_parabola.html
index 24a9dac8..cb5f8f52 100644
--- a/docs/gnulinux/encrypted_parabola.html
+++ b/docs/gnulinux/encrypted_parabola.html
@@ -147,6 +147,11 @@
Note that the default iteration time is 2000ms (20 seconds) if not specified
in cryptsetup. You should set a lower time than this, otherwise there will be
an approximate 20 second delay when booting your system.
+ We recommend 500ms (5 seconds), and this is included in the prepared
+ cryptsetup command below.
+ Note that the iteration time is for security purposes (mitigates
+ brute force attacks), so anything lower than 5 seconds is probably
+ not ok.
I am using MBR partitioning, so I use cfdisk:
@@ -177,7 +182,7 @@
I am initializing LUKS with the following:
- # cryptsetup -v --cipher serpent-xts-plain64 --key-size 512 --hash whirlpool --use-random --verify-passphrase luksFormat /dev/sda1
+ # cryptsetup -v --cipher serpent-xts-plain64 --key-size 512 --hash whirlpool --iter-time 500 --use-random --verify-passphrase luksFormat /dev/sda1
Choose a secure passphrase here. Ideally lots of lowercase/uppercase numbers, letters, symbols etc all in a random pattern. The
password length should be as long as you are able to handle without writing it down or storing it anywhere.
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