Re: Support for plain dm-crypt and detached LUKS header

[Andrei Borzenkov]

11.02.2017 17:11, Maxim Fomin пишет:
>  I have not found any discussion of the issue.

Just search for dm-crypt on grub-devel

> Why create separate
> module? It appears (I may be wrong) that this functionality can be
> provided by existing module.
> 
> By the way, why user should configure the module manually? My
> understanding is that user should provide all necessary options to the
> command (manually or via grub.cfg) which decrypts dm-crypt partition
> just like in case of cryptsetup.
>

cryptsetup works with self-identifying containers which dm-crypt is not.


> Best regards,
> Maxim Fomin
> 
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 11.02.2017 12:40, Maxim Fomin пишет:
>>>  Hi!
>>>
>>> After reviewing grub help I see no support for plain dm-crypt, despite
>>> the fact that LUKS is supported (my understanding is that it is easier
>>> to implement plain dm-crypt than luks, but may be wrong - in any case
>>> it is irrelevant). After googling the problem I see that there were
>>> some patches to support the feature
>>> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2015-06/msg00109.html)
>>> but it seems they were not accepted.
>>>
>>> So, what is the state of supporting plain dm-crypt?
>>
>> Same as before - it is currently not supported. As was discussed, having
>> separate grub module that implements it would probably be OK with
>> understanding that user has to configure it manually; full fledged
>> support including grub-install magic is likely not possible at all.
>>
>>> Having support for
>>> plain dm-crypt or detached luks header helps denying that the
>>> partition is cryptocontainer.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Maxim Fomin
>>>
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