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What's next in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (part 2) (Red Hat Magazine)What's next in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (part 2) (Red Hat Magazine)Posted Aug 1, 2008 21:21 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: What's next in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (part 2) (Red Hat Magazine) by hildeb Parent article: What's next in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (part 2) (Red Hat Magazine)
I use LUKS with Debian Testing/Unstable as my root partition. All the tools and the scripts seem to support it just fine. Unfortunately the installer doesn't seem to support it at this time, only dmcrypt sans luks. So I was forced to do the install via debootstrap, (which is how I do it most of the time anyways since I dislike farting around with ISO disks and cdroms when most my computers don't have a drive for it...)
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LUKS support in debian-installer Posted Aug 2, 2008 9:19 UTC (Sat) by mv (subscriber, #17258) [Link]
> the installer doesn't seem to support it at this time, only dmcrypt sans luks
It does. :-)
LUKS has been supported together with loop-AES and plain dm-crypt since before the first
released version (Debian etch).
I see where we might be creating a different perception:
In the installer menu we call the encryption system "dm-crypt" [1]. Depending on the key type
it will create a LUKS partition ("Passphrase") or a plain dm-crypt mapping (volatile one-time
"Random key").
[1] Calling it dm-crypt is technically correct - LUKS really is dm-crypt plus key and
parameter management, but it completely hides the fact that some key types imply a LUKS
header.
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