Re: dm-crypt crypt_status reports key?

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 03:34:29AM +0100, Christophe Saout wrote:
> The keyring API seems very flexible. You can define your own type of
> keys and give them names. Well, the name is probably irrelevant here and
> should be chosen randomly but it's less likely to collide with someone
> else.
 
Dunno here, seems that having one tool that gave the kernel a key named
"foo" and then telling dm-crypt to use key "foo" is probably not a bad
way to go. Then we don't have stuff like "echo <key> | dmsetup create"
and the like and the key-handling smarts can all be put in one
separate place.

Getting from here to there might be interesting though. Perhaps we can
teach dm-crypt to understand keys of the form "keyname:<foo>"? in
addition to raw keys to keep compatibility. Might even be possible to
push this down into crypt_decode_key() (or a smarter variant of same).

Meanwhile, I'd still like to hide the raw key in crypt_status().

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