Fedora 7 encrypted root partition

[Lamont Peterson]

On Monday 22 January 2007 06:37am, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Yes. There's a couple more letter swaps (Q<->A, Y->Z->W->Y, M in a
> > different place, so they'd have to type '?'), and the numbers are shifted
> > in the French layout and not in the US one. Still, it's possible to
> > remember the differences.
>
> PS: Oh, and what about something having Anaconda enforce something like:
> "Due to keyboard layout differences, non-alphanumeric characters and the
> letters A, M, Q, W, Y and Z are not allowed in HD passwords."
> Wouldn't that solve most of these issues?

Perhaps...perhaps not.  Either way, it would still be bad security, especially 
for encrypting something as large as the hard drive.

Personally, I use a 28 character password for a single encrypted partition 
(not whole hard drive) on my notebook and I consider that to be minimal (will 
probably make it twice as long next time).
-- 
Lamont Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com>
Senior Instructor
Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ]

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