Bug#323436: busybox-udeb: please build with CONFIG_UUENCODE=y
Hi Bastian,
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 02:25:25PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 08:58:42PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote:
> > It would be useful to have uuencode available in busybox-udeb for the
> > support of block device encryption in partman-crypto. In particular, I'd
> > like to use uuencode to create loop-AES multi-key style encryption keys.
>
> I reject the patch.
> Reasons:
> - unneccesary, keys never needs to be readable.
> - reduces the entrophy.
I forgot to mention one important point: Using uuencode is the way
loop-AES upstream recommends to create keyfiles. It has been documented
as recommended method since ~2003 or so [0]. So this is in fact not
something I've come up with or could reasonably decide not to adopt.
How could we go forward? Any chance it could still be added, or are
there other issues that prevent adding it from a d-i perspective?
cheers,
Max
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[0] http://loop-aes.sf.net/loop-AES.README
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