geli key without key file

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Fri Dec 7 08:36:03 PST 2007


On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 08:43:55PM -0500, Howard Goldstein wrote:
> 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?

Yes.

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