* Matt Taggart | 2009-03-04 20:00:56 [-0800]: >The cryptsetup(8) man page mentions the default hash, cipher, and keysize >values for different cases, but I am looking for a way to determine what >values are available. Looking at the source it seems to determine this from >/proc/crypto (so I guess depends on what kernel modules are loaded?). To some degree yes. If you don't use any crypto support then usually no modules are loaded and /proc/crypto is emtpy. Once you start lets say luksFormat with aes-xts as the algorithm, both (aes & xts) are loaded by the kernel (if available of course).
>Could cryptsetup have an option to print available options? Maybe if you >invoked a flag with "list" like > > cryptsetup --cipher list > >it could list available options? This could be possible but would require to probe all variants / load all modules. >Also I think only certain combinations are supported, it would be nice if >somehow it could list those too. There are almost no exceptions I thing however some are not clever like aes-ecb :) I thing the best way to go is to make a static list (part of the docs). >Matt Taggart Sebastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
