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authorMilan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>2013-06-28 20:39:54 +0200
committerMilan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>2013-06-28 20:39:54 +0200
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Fix default modes in man page.
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diff --git a/man/cryptsetup.8 b/man/cryptsetup.8
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--- a/man/cryptsetup.8
+++ b/man/cryptsetup.8
@@ -520,11 +520,10 @@ Set the cipher specification string.
\fIcryptsetup \-\-help\fR shows the compiled-in defaults.
The current default in the distributed sources is
-"aes-cbc-essiv:sha256" for both plain dm-crypt and LUKS.
+"aes-cbc-essiv:sha256" for plain dm-crypt and
+"aes-xts-plain64" for LUKS.
-For XTS mode (a possible future default), use "aes-xts-plain"
-or better "aes-xts-plain64"
-as cipher specification and optionally set a key size of
+For XTS mode you can optionally set a key size of
512 bits with the \-s option. Key size for XTS
mode is twice that for other modes for the same
security level.