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Subject: geli key without key file
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If I create a geli volume without specifying a -K newkeyfile as in the
handbook example that dds /dev/random to a 64 byte file, would a
reasonable passphrase result in geli init creating a reasonable key for
the AES or Blowfish encryption implementation?