From: Frederic Hoerni <frederic.hoerni@canonical.com>
To: cryptsetup@lists.linux.dev
Subject: reencryption with multi keyslots in batch mode
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 14:43:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac44ad4e-e9ec-4ab4-ac8d-6b545ece7d2d@canonical.com> (raw)
Hello,
If we want to reencrypt a disk that has several keyslots (main and
recovery keyslots), I believe the only way is to do it in interactive mode.
But in some cases, we would like to do this in batch mode. We could
imagine a scenario like this:
1. Setup of the use case (no modification of cryptsetup needed so far)
# Initialize LUKS container
dd if=/dev/zero count=200 of=disk.img bs=1M
echo 0000 | sudo cryptsetup luksFormat --keyfile-size 4 \
--key-file - \
disk.img
# Add two keyslots
echo -n 0000x111111 | cryptsetup luksAddKey --key-file - \
--keyfile-size 4 \
disk.img
echo -n 0000222 | cryptsetup luksAddKey --key-file - \
--keyfile-size 4 \
disk.img
2. Reencryption (this step needs modification of cryptsetup)
echo -n 0000x111111222 | \
sudo cryptsetup reencrypt --key-file - \
--keypipe-sizes "4,7,3" \
--batch-mode \
--force-offline-reencrypt \
disk.img
3. Verify all keyslots
for passphrase in 0000 x111111 222; do
echo -n $passphrase | cryptsetup open disk.img --test-passphrase \
--key-file -
done
Do you have any on-going work in this direction?
Are you open to contribution for that? (I already have a proof of
concept for the above scenario)
Do you have any particular caveat about developing this feature?
Thank you
Frederic
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2026-06-03 12:43 Frederic Hoerni [this message]
2026-06-08 9:55 ` reencryption with multi keyslots in batch mode Ondrej Kozina
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