"this appears to be unrelated to cryptsetup itself" Hmm ...
My experience: 1. I installed Ubuntu 18.04 from a daily built a couple of days ago 2. I plugged in an encrypted ext4 usb-stick. It did not work. I tried to format an usb-stick with encrypted ext4. It did not work. 3. I installed "cryptsetup". It still did not work. 4. I installed "libblockdev-crypto2" (that is not marked to be part of supported Ubunut-Packages) and it worked. Sry, I cannot say more about this issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to udisks2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1760282 Title: Cryptsetup does not allow storage-drive encryption, it has unfullfilled dependencies Status in udisks2 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: After installing cryptsetup it was not possible to encrypt an usb- stick or to open an encrypted usb-stick. In case of encryption (ext4) with e.g. "gnome-disks" it showed the error: The function "bd_crypto_luks_open_blob" called, but not implemented! A solution for this problem was given in https://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=166920 The installation of the library sudo apt-get install libblockdev-crypto2 was the solution. This library is not part of required dependencies of cryptsetup. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: cryptsetup 2:2.0.1-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-13.14-generic 4.15.10 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-13-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sat Mar 31 11:48:14 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-03-24 (6 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180321) SourcePackage: cryptsetup UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) cmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-13-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=dddb12ef-69be-465c-80f8-f94714a9dcdb ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1 crypttab: # <target name> <source device> <key file> <options> To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks2/+bug/1760282/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

