From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from v6.tansi.org (mail.tansi.org [87.118.116.4]) by mail.server123.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:35:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from gatewagner.dyndns.org (77-57-36-72.dclient.hispeed.ch [77.57.36.72]) by v6.tansi.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8788420DC1FA for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:35:33 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:35:33 +0100 From: Arno Wagner Message-ID: <20160209233532.GB21086@tansi.org> References: <56B20C05.7080307@gmail.com> <56B90DDD.1080107@gmail.com> <56BA6353.7080207@tu-ilmenau.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56BA6353.7080207@tu-ilmenau.de> Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] The future of disk encryption with LUKS2 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 23:08:19 CET, Lars Winterfeld wrote: > On 08.02.2016 22:51, Milan Broz wrote: > > [Just note to already crazy discussion here - there will be NO LUKS header > > at the end of device. Been there with another storage project and > > just no - it is not worth problems it causes.] > > Out of curiosity: what were those problems? Same here. Not asking for a justification (if you feel it is a mess or other problem, that is quite enough for me), just want to understand the issue. For proper layering, it should of course allways be [header, payload] with the payload having potentially the same format if there are more layers below. That is the tradidional way to do it. This even has a name, but I do not remember it at the moment. Was the problem confusion/complexity because this layering-sheme was violated? Regards, Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier