Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of Encryption

Timestamp:

11/07/13 07:07:12 (8 years ago)

Author:

Antoine Martin

Comment:

--

Encryption

@@ -16 +16 @@
 == Setup ==
 
+Prior to version 0.11, the encryption key used was derived directly from the "{{{--password-file=FILENAME}}}" command line option.
+
+Starting with version 0.11, one can specify the encryption key to use with the "{{{--encryption-keyfile=FILENAME}}}" command line option or fallback to the password from the [/wiki/Authentication authentication module] in use.
+
+The contents of this key are combined with salts to generate the secret used to initialize the AES cipher.
 }}}