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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-04-25 12:33:49 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-04-25 12:33:49 -0700 |
commit | 6f97b220f414e3599ea5374905ba6d0dc47d63b0 (patch) | |
tree | 79b268ea6efcd417d923fdbc1aed7bc0fce15554 /Documentation | |
parent | 4b7227ca321ccf447cdc04538687c895db8b77f5 (diff) | |
parent | e3dcc5a387fc38e9c3c6c4f857cd9a7f71a8553a (diff) | |
download | linux-6f97b220f414e3599ea5374905ba6d0dc47d63b0.tar.bz2 |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm: (24 commits)
dm crypt: add documentation
dm: remove md argument from specific_minor
dm table: remove unused dm_create_error_table
dm table: drop void suspend_targets return
dm: unplug queues in threads
dm raid1: use timer
dm: move include files
dm kcopyd: rename
dm: expose macros
dm kcopyd: remove redundant client counting
dm kcopyd: private mempool
dm kcopyd: per device
dm log: make module use tracking internal
dm log: move register functions
dm log: clean interface
dm kcopyd: clean interface
dm io: clean interface
dm io: rename error to error_bits
dm snapshot: store pointer to target instance
dm log: move dirty region log code into separate module
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt | 52 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6680cab2c705 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +dm-crypt +========= + +Device-Mapper's "crypt" target provides transparent encryption of block devices +using the kernel crypto API. + +Parameters: <cipher> <key> <iv_offset> <device path> <offset> + +<cipher> + Encryption cipher and an optional IV generation mode. + (In format cipher-chainmode-ivopts:ivmode). + Examples: + des + aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 + twofish-ecb + + /proc/crypto contains supported crypto modes + +<key> + Key used for encryption. It is encoded as a hexadecimal number. + You can only use key sizes that are valid for the selected cipher. + +<iv_offset> + The IV offset is a sector count that is added to the sector number + before creating the IV. + +<device path> + This is the device that is going to be used as backend and contains the + encrypted data. You can specify it as a path like /dev/xxx or a device + number <major>:<minor>. + +<offset> + Starting sector within the device where the encrypted data begins. + +Example scripts +=============== +LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) is now the preferred way to set up disk +encryption with dm-crypt using the 'cryptsetup' utility, see +http://luks.endorphin.org/ + +[[ +#!/bin/sh +# Create a crypt device using dmsetup +dmsetup create crypt1 --table "0 `blockdev --getsize $1` crypt aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 babebabebabebabebabebabebabebabe 0 $1 0" +]] + +[[ +#!/bin/sh +# Create a crypt device using cryptsetup and LUKS header with default cipher +cryptsetup luksFormat $1 +cryptsetup luksOpen $1 crypt1 +]] |