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lbu encryption does not use modern pbkdf

Daniel Gray <dng@disroot.org>
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Hi,

When uncommenting ENCRYPTION=$DEFAULT_CIPHER in /etc/lbu/lbu.conf and
then committing I noticed this error:

enter aes-256-cbc encryption password:
Verifying - enter aes-256-cbc encryption password:
*** WARNING : deprecated key derivation used.
Using -iter or -pbkdf2 would be better.

lbu should probably be updated to use a modern key derivation function
with a suitable number of rounds.

Thoughts?

I suppose changing it there would be the concern of backwards
compatibility.

If I remember correctly Cryptsetup 2.0 changed to Argon:
https://www.saout.de/pipermail/dm-crypt/2017-December/005771.html

I posted an issue about it on the bug tracker:
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/alpine-conf/-/issues/10457

However it was mentioned in #alpine-linux that I should also post it to
the devel mailing list for discussion.

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