Re: "How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away" (revised)
On 12/07/2005 Max Vozeler wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:44:07PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> > please consider to support luks too. the current cryptsetup package
> > supports only dm-crypt from christophe saout. luks from clemens
> > fruhwirth has many advantages over plain dm-crypt, and i guess that it's
> > quite more common for encrypted disks.
>
> Is there already support for LUKS in Debian?
no, not officially. but Michael Gebetsroither <michael.geb@gmx.at>
provides cryptsetup-luks debs at his own repositority here:
deb http://einsteinmg.dyndns.org/debian unstable/
> I'm very open for this and will keep it in mind, but I have to plead
> ignorance about the practical side of using the luks implementations.
> (I've only read Fruhwirth Clemens' LUKS paper)
unfortunately it's the same for me. i still use cryptsetup from wesley
as i'm too lazy to upgrade my encrypted partitions to luks.
but i have this on my todo list since many months *g*
> The framework should allow to use LUKS in principle, but input from
> people who use it would be required for the actual implementation. If
> you are interested, or know of someone who is, please let me know.
i think the best person to contact is Michael Gebetsroither. you can
reach him at michael.geb@gmx.at. i had some conversation about his
packages with him, and it seems to me that he has quite a good
understanding of luks.
bye
jonas
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