Re: API definition for LUKS key management

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 05:58:20PM +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> I will try to explain the interface with bunch of examples:

I want to fill in equiv examples from cryptsetup for sake
of comparison

> # adds a new password, defined by qemu secret 'sec0' to first unused slot
> # give user a error if all keyslots are occupied
> qemu-img amend --secret ... -o key-secret=sec1 image.luks

  cryptsetup luksAddKey --key-file currentkey.txt \
                        --new-key-file newkey.txt \
                        /dev/mapper/foo

> # erases all keyslots that can be opened by password that is contained in a qemu secret 'sec0'
> # active=off means that the given password/keyslot won't be active after the operation
> qemu-img amend --secret ... -o key-secret=sec0,active=off image.luks


  cryptsetup luksRemoveKey --key-file currentkey.txt \
                           /dev/mapper/foo

> # erase the slot 5 (this is more low level command, less expected to be used)
> qemu-img amend --secret ... -o slot=5,active=off image.luks

  cryptsetup luksKillSlot /dev/mapper/foo 5

> # add new secret to slot 5 (will fail if the slot is already marked as active)
> qemu-img amend --secret ... -o slot=5,key-secret=sec1 image.luks

  cryptsetup luksAddKey --key-file currentkey.txt \
                        --new-key-file newkey.txt \
			--key-slot 5 \
                        /dev/mapper/foo

They look very different in syntax because they are taking two differnet
approaches.

The cryptsetup approach is functional, where the user states what action
they want performed.

The qemu-img amend approach is declarative, where the user expresses what
end state they want the image to be in.

The challenge is that the qemu-img proposal isn't fully declarative as
we are only partially expressing the end state, attempting to leave other
slots unspecified. This is good as it means we don't have to specify a
huge amount of data on the CLI. This is bad as makes it less obvious
what actual effects of the commands will be and I feel users will end
up needing to read the manual every time to re-learn it.

Regards,
Daniel
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