Re: detached LUKS header size

Milan Broz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 25/11/2019 16:17, Fourhundred Thecat wrote:
>> On 2019-11-25 14:55, Milan Broz wrote:
> 
> Hi Milan,
> 
> just to make sure there is no misunderstanding:
> 
>> Then there is alignment, so the real data offset is aligned by default to
>> the 1MB boundary.
>>
>> With this padding, header size is for 128bit key 2MB, for 256/512 key 4MB.
> 
> I am actually using 512 bit key:
> 
>   --cipher aes-xts-plain64 --key-size 512 --hash sha512
> 
> so it would seem I need 4MB header for luks1 with 512 key
> 
>> Yes. For reference: for 128bit it is 528384 bytes, for 256bit 1052672
>> bytes,
>> for 512bit (2x256bits in XTS mode) it is 2068480 bytes.
> 
> now I am confused. 2068480 is less than 2MB. So when aligned to 1MB
> boundary, 2MB would be enough for luks1 with 512 key.
> 
> So is it 2MB or 4MB ?

Ah, yes, sorry, it is 2MB. (The real used space is 4040 512-byte sectors.)

Milan
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