What is the Encryption Algorithm in VMware?

[0WayneH0]

Before I ask this question I'll just note that I haven't been completely lazy... I searched the communities, searched the KB, marketing material and technical articles and documentation and can't find the answer, so I'll ask it here.

I noticed today when I encypted a virtual machine that all I had to do was enter a password and that was it. As a long time TrueCrypt user this feels a tad concealed to me as I am used to picking an encryption algorithm (or more than one), picking a hash aglorithm, contributing to randomness of encryption keys and so on. So, to my question, what encryption algorithm(s) is WMWare using? If I had to guess I'd guess AES, 256-bit, but it would be nice if someone could verify and/or point me to any VMware resources on the topic; preferrably a topic that went into as much detail as possible!

Thanks in advance.

[a_p_]

You are correct it's AES 256 bit.

see http://www.vmware.com/support/ws7/doc/releasenotes_ws7.html

256-bit Encryption — Secure your virtual machines with AES256-bit encryption to prevent unauthorized users from accessing or running the configuration files.

André

[0WayneH0]

Thanks - I had checked the 7.1 release notes only.

I don't suppose there's any more detail than that on it? I'm thinking white-paper or something more than a marketing bullet.

If not, that's fine for now.

Thanks.