A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines
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April 13, 2026
By default LUKS2 should use aes-xts-plain64 (which is equivalent to AES256 used in other modes but technically has a 512-bit key size).
You can view the cipher in use with cryptsetup status $volumename. Look for the “cipher” property.
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