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Subject: [Qemu-devel] QCOW2 cryptography and secure key handling
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Hi,

I have some budget to improve QCOW2's cryptography.

My main concern is that the QCOW2 image crypto key is passed in clear tex=
t.

Do you (the block maintainers) have an idea on how the code could be impr=
oved
to securely pass the crypto key to the QCOW2 code ?

Best regards

Beno=EEt