Re: unbound keys
Arno Wagner <[email protected]>
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Hi Ondrej, On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 13:28:45 CEST, Ondrej Kozina wrote: > Hi Arno, > > and sorry for late reply (see below): > > On 3/31/20 11:21 AM, Arno Wagner wrote: > >There is also the thing that the FAQ is LUKS1, not LUKS2. [...] > >Will existing features be stable after 2.4.0 or do you plan > >additional changes? > > I'd say LUKS2 on-disk format itself is stable at least since 2.1.0 release. > 2.2.0 and later we're adding new features but it doesn't mean we can't > document existing features (new pbkdf, per keyslot parameters, unbound > keyslots, metadata auto-recovery capabilities, up-conversion to LUKS2, > etc.). > > LUKS2 metadata is more flexible due to json (text) format so I guess new > features will keep comming (one of main reasons we decided to switch to > LUKS2 in first place) but it should always be 'extension' and not an > incompatible change. > > Regards O. Thanks, good to know. I have not really looked at the new format, but I should find some time in the near future. I will start on reviewing and extending the FAQ. Regards, Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: [email protected] GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list [email protected] https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt