From: "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Questions about LUKS / LVM
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:00:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1316448000.17657.3@mofo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1316447158.7965.12.camel@zarniwoop> (from zoqaeski@gmail.com on Mon Sep 19 10:45:52 2011)
On 09/19/2011 10:45:52 AM, Robbie Smith wrote:
> How much of a load on the system would LUKS + LVM be?
> Is it likely to
> result in a noticeable drop in performance?
It all depends, but generally no because cpu is _so_ much faster
than disk these days.
> Does entering the key(s)
> at
> boot decrypt the whole volume, or just provide a means for the kernel
> module to decrypt and encrypt on-the-fly?
The latter.
>
> And… how does it work? The documentation makes mention of multiple
> key-slots; but I'm a little baffled as to how different keys can be
> used
> to decrypt the same volume. It is based on symmetric cryptography,
> isn't
> it?
Yes, but the master key is encrypted by each key, separately, and
that's what your multiple passwords decrypt.
See the tks-1 paper (iirc) referenced on the wiki for more info.
Karl <kop@meme.com>
Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-19 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-19 15:45 [dm-crypt] Questions about LUKS / LVM Robbie Smith
2011-09-19 16:00 ` Karl O. Pinc [this message]
2011-09-19 16:11 ` Quentin Lefebvre
2011-09-21 17:39 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
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