On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 11:22:15PM +0100, J?r?my Bobbio wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 06:12:27PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > Ah OK, I was missing that information. Then it belongs to the > > installer in some way, but being ignorant as I am about FS encryption, > > I'll leave to others to followup, if someone wants to. > > Please see #482092 [1]. > > The answer for not implementing XTS and LRW in partman is pretty lame: > it misses the code to actually display key sizes that differ from one > algorithm to another. Not hard to do, but no one did step up to do it. > > Adding the necessary modules in order to support rescueing partitions > encrypted using XTS would be pretty trivial: kernel-wedge needs one or > two lines added in one of its file. But it did not seem important to do > so before adding support code in partman first. > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482092
Interestingly, after I enter rescue mode from the netinst CD boot menu, I'm prompted for a password far before D-I starts and partman is ever seen. It is just like the standard cryptsetup via initrd. -- Ryan C. Underwood, <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
