Re: LUKS2 support for null/plaintext target

Robert Nichols <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.)

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Bob Nichols     "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
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