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From:
Filip Cernoch <filipcernoch@posteo.net>
Subject:
Re: Replace Blowfish with AES in vnode disk driver
To:
tech@openbsd.org
Date:
Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:09:32 +0000

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On 25/09/16 06:22PM, Alexander Bluhm wrote:
> Does this prevent recovery for all existing disk images which are
> encrypted with blowfish?
> 
> vnd(4) encryption is legacy, use softraid(4) instead.
> 
> bluhm
You're right, I didn't think it think of somebody still using the
Blowfish encryption and therefor still needing it. 

Would you suggest leaving it like the way it's now (because it's legacy
and it's not useful to anybody besides the people who still use for one
reason or the other) or would adding AES on top of what's  already 
there, i.e. making an additional function that does the same but with 
AES better? I don't want to do something that's essentially useless.

Greetings,
Filip