Which Cyper is used by default?

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Hi there,

i was just wondering which cypher is used, when i chose to encrypt the hard drive with the opensuse installer?

Greetings,

Allquantor

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More information about what you are trying to do and with which distro would be helpful.
When I did a full disk encryption I was able to pick a few options offered by cryptsetup that impacted on the cyper used. I am using aes with a 512 bit key.

Also, please note that the US keyboard is used by default at boot-up and some special characters that you might normally have available might not be recognized we you try to enter your passphrase.

Here is a link to the Q&A which should answer many of your questions:
http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

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The default (and only one) cypher is AES, the least secure of the most common cyphers.
I’m surprised the developers don’t include Serpent/Twofish and they don’t gives choices like IV Algorithm or even a simple Key Length.