On 12/07/2005 Max Vozeler wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:44:07PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > please consider to support luks too. the current cryptsetup package > > supports only dm-crypt from christophe saout. luks from clemens > > fruhwirth has many advantages over plain dm-crypt, and i guess that it's > > quite more common for encrypted disks. > > Is there already support for LUKS in Debian?
no, not officially. but Michael Gebetsroither <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> provides cryptsetup-luks debs at his own repositority here: deb http://einsteinmg.dyndns.org/debian unstable/ > I'm very open for this and will keep it in mind, but I have to plead > ignorance about the practical side of using the luks implementations. > (I've only read Fruhwirth Clemens' LUKS paper) unfortunately it's the same for me. i still use cryptsetup from wesley as i'm too lazy to upgrade my encrypted partitions to luks. but i have this on my todo list since many months *g* > The framework should allow to use LUKS in principle, but input from > people who use it would be required for the actual implementation. If > you are interested, or know of someone who is, please let me know. i think the best person to contact is Michael Gebetsroither. you can reach him at [EMAIL PROTECTED] i had some conversation about his packages with him, and it seems to me that he has quite a good understanding of luks. bye jonas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
