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From: Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM@comcast.net>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] LUKS2 support for null/plaintext target
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 22:28:31 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <qt1odg$5hpb$1@blaine.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2b1f731d-0713-fadf-f895-b62b00363a95@gmail.com>

On 12/13/19 8:59 AM, Milan Broz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 07/12/2019 00:10, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> I'm wondering if it's possible, or LUKS2 could be extended, to support
>> an non-encrypted target. That is, the virtual device and backing
>> device would contain the same information.
> 
> (You are not the first one asking for support for this option.)
> 
> In fact, the support is already there. But I am reluctant to officially
> support it for a very long time, because it would be super confusing
> for users (We have LUKS, but actually no encryption?!)

How about using real encryption but use /dev/null as the key-file?
(Just a thought.)

-- 
Bob Nichols     "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
                 Do NOT delete it.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-14  4:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-06 23:10 [dm-crypt] LUKS2 support for null/plaintext target Chris Murphy
2019-12-07  9:39 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-12-08 16:59   ` Chris Murphy
2019-12-13 14:59 ` Milan Broz
2019-12-13 18:54   ` Chris Murphy
2019-12-13 21:41     ` Arno Wagner
2019-12-14  4:28   ` Robert Nichols [this message]
2019-12-14 14:42     ` Arno Wagner
2019-12-14 21:18       ` Chris Murphy
2019-12-15 17:51         ` Jordan Glover
2019-12-15 19:12           ` Arno Wagner
2019-12-15 20:49           ` Chris Murphy
2019-12-16 17:08             ` Jordan Glover
2019-12-16 18:24               ` Chris Murphy
2019-12-16 18:49                 ` Arno Wagner
2019-12-16 20:46                   ` Chris Murphy
2019-12-16 22:08                     ` Arno Wagner
2019-12-16 21:33                 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-12-16 22:17                   ` Chris Murphy
2019-12-17 17:07                 ` Jordan Glover
2019-12-18  0:24                   ` Arno Wagner

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