From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from v1.tansi.org (mail.tansi.org [84.19.178.47]) by mail.server123.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Sat, 11 Apr 2020 21:56:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gatewagner.dyndns.org (81-6-44-245.init7.net [81.6.44.245]) by v1.tansi.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E584E1401FD for ; Sat, 11 Apr 2020 21:56:11 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 21:56:12 +0200 From: Arno Wagner Message-ID: <20200411195611.GA25259@tansi.org> References: <233063842.2717340.1586366160963.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <233063842.2717340.1586366160963@mail.yahoo.com> <65d9482aafb2bb4c4753f272d3c8b418c1f1d590.camel@yahoo.com> <6114e747-a8cd-c0c6-ccc8-7f666f04d32b@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6114e747-a8cd-c0c6-ccc8-7f666f04d32b@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] cryptsetup Yubikey challenge-response support List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 18:09:46 CEST, Milan Broz wrote: > On 11/04/2020 16:49, JT Moree wrote: > > Arno is working on updating the docs for new features of luks2. > > Arno did not add anything to FAQ in this regard for the last two+ years (the last > contribution was in 2017, I do not count last week change for "LUKS2 is not > covered" FAQ commit. > The FAQ is really obsolete now, and we have to update it or remove it > from distribution soon. > (Many people already complained through various channels.) Well, many people complained and exactly zero did any work or offered any work. Also, zero did complain to me (except for the comments on the list here). These two details make me very unconcerned about their complaints. This is, at the moment, the LUKS 1 FAQ (and that was really what the commit from last week was about), and as that it does not need removing. It also covers quite a bit of stuff that is not LUKS 1 specific and some stuff that is not even LUKS specific. So unless you are positive nobody uses LUKS 1 anymore, and the not LUKS 1 specific stuff is irrelevant, removing it would really be the wrong approach. If you want to start a LUKS 2 FAQ, be my guest. But be aware that such a thing is a _lot_ of work before it is anywhere near completion. That you do not have complete design documentation for LUKS 2 (as far as I can tell) makes it even harder. Maybe you write that documentation and as soon as it is complete, I will go into the FAQ and start updating. Regards, Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier