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From: "msalists@gmx.net" <msalists@gmx.net>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Asustor NAS and cryptsetup 1.6.1
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:32:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54A20EDA.9030400@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54A1AB87.1070804@yahoo.com>

On 2014-12-29 11:29, Quentin Lefebvre wrote:
> On 29/12/2014 20:06, msalists@gmx.net wrote :
>> Assuming I did create the container with aes-cbc-essiv:sha256; would
>> cryptsetup automatically figure out the correct parameters when it is
>> subsequently called without those parameters to mount the container?
>> Or do non-default parameters at creation time require the same
>> non-default parameters again for subsequent mounts?
>
> As you may have understood, in plain mode, there is no header, so no 
> way for cryptsetup to guess the algorithm used. Thus, if it is a 
> non-default one, it must be specified also at mount time.
>

Hm, makes sense. Is there some kind of a config file that I could 
specify the parameters in, and that would be read prior to using the 
defaults - similar to how some parameters for mount can be specified in 
/etc/fstab ?

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-30  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-27  7:47 [dm-crypt] Asustor NAS and cryptsetup 1.6.1 msalists
2014-12-27 10:11 ` Arno Wagner
2014-12-29 19:06   ` msalists
2014-12-29 19:29     ` Quentin Lefebvre
2014-12-30  2:32       ` msalists [this message]
     [not found]         ` <20141230100413.GA11208@tansi.org>
2014-12-30 18:18           ` msalists
2014-12-30 19:16             ` Sven Eschenberg
2014-12-31  7:26             ` Arno Wagner
2014-12-30  0:37     ` Claudio Moretti
2014-12-30  1:00       ` msalists
2014-12-30  1:46         ` Arno Wagner
2014-12-30  2:11           ` msalists
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-12-27  3:49 msalists
2014-12-27  7:38 ` Arno Wagner

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