Re: Support for plain dm-crypt and detached LUKS header

[Andrei Borzenkov]

11.02.2017 12:40, Maxim Fomin пишет:
>  Hi!
> 
> After reviewing grub help I see no support for plain dm-crypt, despite
> the fact that LUKS is supported (my understanding is that it is easier
> to implement plain dm-crypt than luks, but may be wrong - in any case
> it is irrelevant). After googling the problem I see that there were
> some patches to support the feature
> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2015-06/msg00109.html)
> but it seems they were not accepted.
> 
> So, what is the state of supporting plain dm-crypt?

Same as before - it is currently not supported. As was discussed, having
separate grub module that implements it would probably be OK with
understanding that user has to configure it manually; full fledged
support including grub-install magic is likely not possible at all.

> Having support for
> plain dm-crypt or detached luks header helps denying that the
> partition is cryptocontainer.
> 
> Best regards,
> Maxim Fomin
> 
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