From: Borden <borden_c@tutanota.com>
To: Cryptsetup <cryptsetup@lists.linux.dev>
Subject: Re: What does cryptsetup luksAddKey --new-key-description do?
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:09:53 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <OvHgcxy--F-9@tutanota.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488b1720-619f-475f-b5a8-2e6ca855b8b8@redhat.com>
Jun 15, 2026, 05:33 by okozina@redhat.com:
> It reads a passphrase for a new keyslot from a kernel keyring key with the description provided as --new-key-desription value argument.
>
> I'll improve the man pages description to make it clear. Feel free to open new issue on > https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup
>
Thank you. It was unclear that description refers specifically to the kernel keyring. I thought it might have been a LUKS label or something.
As long as this shows up in search results so you don't have to be bothered about this again, I'm happy.
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2026-06-13 1:32 What does cryptsetup luksAddKey --new-key-description do? Borden
2026-06-15 9:33 ` Ondrej Kozina
2026-06-16 23:09 ` Borden [this message]
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