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From: Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM@comcast.net>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Why is the chk_luks_keyslots tool not routinely included?
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 19:44:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <r5rfct$108v$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d36d15f1-72ea-5df3-041b-8aa20d9b9cf0@gmail.com>

On 3/29/20 9:09 AM, Milan Broz wrote:
> On 29/03/2020 14:34, Jordan Glover wrote:
>> On Sunday, March 29, 2020 10:20 AM, Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name> wrote:
>>
>>> I think that is a decision by the distros. I am certainly
>>> willing to maintain it for the foreseeable future. It is
>>> not really much effort.
>>
>> The distros just do "make install" [1]. I think it's upstream who decides what this command does.
>>
>> [1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/cryptsetup#n39
> 
> My plan was to include this check in repair command instead of adding additional binary.
> (The code could remain basically the same.)
> 
> With LUKS2 we can store other data in binary keyslot area (depends on type), so it need a little
> bit more work but it should not be a big problem.
> 
> Please report an issue for it, that helps to not forget about it.

Done. https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/-/issues/545

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-30  0:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-28 21:56 [dm-crypt] Why is the chk_luks_keyslots tool not routinely included? Robert Nichols
2020-03-29 10:20 ` Arno Wagner
2020-03-29 12:34   ` Jordan Glover
2020-03-29 14:09     ` Milan Broz
2020-03-29 17:19       ` Arno Wagner
2020-03-30  0:44       ` Robert Nichols [this message]

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