Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 12:29:47 +0100 (CET) From: Christian Baer <christian.baer@informatik.uni-dortmund.de> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GELI compatibility with GBDE Message-ID: <duei3b$o71$2@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> References: <a1ef274e0602261836m7f3eee16qf5f0bb9aead9dda@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 02:36:03 +0000 Jack T wrote: > My question is: can GELI access > a partition that was encrypted by GBDE? This is a fair while back, but since the answer wasn't really given in the thread: definately NO. geli and gbde use *entirely* different concepts on storing the data. While geli uses the same key for the whole provider, gbde uses different, random ones. At the same time, geli uses IVs which gbde does not use. Even at a writing level, the two are different. I won't go into this at the moment - I'm still in the process of understanding it myself. :-) What I can tell you is this: making gbde and geli compatible is like making a plane and a submarine compatible, in the sense that they can both fly and go underwater without any drawbacks. Regards Chris
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