From: Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins@wp.pl>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] How to activate hash module?
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:01:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201103142101.33776.bluedzins@wp.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110314163231.GC13903@tansi.org>
On Monday 14 March 2011 17:32:31 Arno Wagner wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 04:54:55PM +0100, Maciej Pilichowski wrote:
> > On Sunday 13 March 2011 21:22:14 Milan Broz wrote:
> > > "plain" mode means directly configured dmcrypt - no metadata
> > > on disk. In cryptsetup it is used in "create" command.
> >
> > Thank you very much for all explanation, I am not crypto guy, so
> > I need time to let this info sink in :-) Pity it is not included
> > in such detail in man.
>
> You can find some more info in the FAQ.
>
> Hmm. Maybe I should add an item "What is the difference
> between plain dm-crypt and LUKS mode?". Maybe later today or
> some time this week.
I think I finally get it :-) -- plain dm-crypt is raw, direct mode (it
is up to anybody to interpret the data as she/he/it likes) and LUKS
mode is "managed" mode, when the data are flagged they are encrypted,
so any 3rd party person/program can detect that fact.
Thank you for this clarification.
Kind regards,
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-14 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-13 9:45 [dm-crypt] How to activate hash module? Maciej Pilichowski
2011-03-13 10:53 ` Heinz Diehl
2011-03-13 13:47 ` Milan Broz
2011-03-13 15:23 ` Maciej Pilichowski
2011-03-13 18:29 ` Milan Broz
2011-03-13 18:58 ` Maciej Pilichowski
2011-03-13 20:22 ` Milan Broz
2011-03-14 15:54 ` Maciej Pilichowski
2011-03-14 16:32 ` Arno Wagner
2011-03-14 20:01 ` Maciej Pilichowski [this message]
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