From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] unbound keys
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 19:58:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200402175837.GA6543@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <de180480-0027-9ac1-239d-65f11a26ef5a@redhat.com>
Hi Ondrej,
On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 13:28:45 CEST, Ondrej Kozina wrote:
> Hi Arno,
>
> and sorry for late reply (see below):
>
> On 3/31/20 11:21 AM, Arno Wagner wrote:
> >There is also the thing that the FAQ is LUKS1, not LUKS2.
[...]
> >Will existing features be stable after 2.4.0 or do you plan
> >additional changes?
>
> I'd say LUKS2 on-disk format itself is stable at least since 2.1.0 release.
> 2.2.0 and later we're adding new features but it doesn't mean we can't
> document existing features (new pbkdf, per keyslot parameters, unbound
> keyslots, metadata auto-recovery capabilities, up-conversion to LUKS2,
> etc.).
>
> LUKS2 metadata is more flexible due to json (text) format so I guess new
> features will keep comming (one of main reasons we decided to switch to
> LUKS2 in first place) but it should always be 'extension' and not an
> incompatible change.
>
> Regards O.
Thanks, good to know. I have not really looked at the new format,
but I should find some time in the near future. I will start
on reviewing and extending the FAQ.
Regards,
Arno
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2020-03-30 20:17 ` [dm-crypt] unbound keys JT Morée
2020-03-31 8:49 ` Ondrej Kozina
2020-03-31 9:21 ` Arno Wagner
2020-04-02 11:28 ` Ondrej Kozina
2020-04-02 17:58 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2020-03-31 10:03 ` Ondrej Kozina
2020-03-31 15:05 ` JT Morée
2020-04-02 11:37 ` Ondrej Kozina
2020-04-03 20:53 ` JT Morée
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