Tails - Weak cryptographic parameters in LUKS1
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TIL the French government may have broken encryption on a LUKS-encrypted laptop with a “greater than 20 character” password in April 2023.

When upgrading TAILS today, I saw their announcement changing LUKS from PBKDF2 to Argon2id.

The release announcement above has some interesting back-of-the-envelope calculations for the wall-time required to crack a master key from a LUKS keyslot with PBKDF2 vs Argon2id.

And they also link to Matthew Garrett’s article, which describes how to manually upgrade your (non-TAILS) LUKS header to Argon2id.

  • grey@discuss.tchncs.de
    11·
    1 year ago

    I don’t use LUKS because I found it to be too much trouble, but if they broke the crypto on LUKS doesn’t that mean a lot of shit out there is vulnerable and not just LUKS encrypted hard drives?

    • maltfield@lemmy.caOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      LUKS is not broken. An old KDF option in LUKS for encrypting the master encryption key in a keyslot is just old and less safe than newer, better KDF options.