On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 04:13:20PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > On 21/06/2006 Andrew Pimlott wrote: > > True, but this can't be configured in crypttab, which makes it > > effectively unavailable. Moreover, it wouldn't provide much additional > > safety. Presumably, a hypothetical "luksrandom" keyword in crypttab > > would mean: check that it's a luks partition, than re-luksFormat and > > luksOpen with the same random key. > > do you see any advantages in providing this? i don't like the idea of > invoking luksFormat automatically in any case.
No, just thinking out loud. > > Cool. So you would special case a key of /dev/*random, and perform only > > those two checks? In other words, would my existing configuration > > > > swap /dev/hda2 /dev/urandom swap > > > > start working again? That sounds like a nice resolution. > > that's the plan. Wonderful. Thank you. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
