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author | Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> | 2014-01-02 17:02:06 +0400 |
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committer | Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> | 2014-01-02 17:02:06 +0400 |
commit | 37e2c2a775fc887acd1432908478dfd532f7f00f (patch) | |
tree | e51ebc699d8e262fd47e0913be6a711cb1a7b565 /Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt | |
parent | 1c8ddae09f4c102b97c9086cc70347e89468a547 (diff) | |
parent | 6ce4eac1f600b34f2f7f58f9cd8f0503d79e42ae (diff) | |
download | linux-37e2c2a775fc887acd1432908478dfd532f7f00f.tar.xz |
Merge commit v3.13-rc1 into kbuild/misc
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diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt index 2c656ae43ba7..c81839b52c4d 100644 --- a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt +++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt @@ -4,12 +4,15 @@ dm-crypt Device-Mapper's "crypt" target provides transparent encryption of block devices using the kernel crypto API. +For a more detailed description of supported parameters see: +http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/DMCrypt + Parameters: <cipher> <key> <iv_offset> <device path> \ <offset> [<#opt_params> <opt_params>] <cipher> Encryption cipher and an optional IV generation mode. - (In format cipher[:keycount]-chainmode-ivopts:ivmode). + (In format cipher[:keycount]-chainmode-ivmode[:ivopts]). Examples: des aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 @@ -19,7 +22,11 @@ Parameters: <cipher> <key> <iv_offset> <device path> \ <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. + You can only use key sizes that are valid for the selected cipher + in combination with the selected iv mode. + Note that for some iv modes the key string can contain additional + keys (for example IV seed) so the key contains more parts concatenated + into a single string. <keycount> Multi-key compatibility mode. You can define <keycount> keys and |