On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 07:17:19PM +0800, Mikael wrote:
> You
> 
> 1) Fill your keydisk with zeroes and
> 
> 2) Apply "bioctl -k" on it.
> 
> Does this mean your key is now zeroes, meaning completely unsafe, or did
> bioctl make a key for you?
> 
> 
> The keydisk gets some "OPENBSDSR KEYDISK005" header but it says nowhere if
> it actually made a key for you.
> 
> If it generates it, then there is no mentioning in the man page of how to
> use one keydisk for multiple volumes. Perhaps that means it doesn't
> generate it afterall?
> 
> Also it says nowhere how big the keydisk needs to be, and if it's any
> benefit of if it's bigger than needed.

Perhaps this will answer your questions:
http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2015-softraid-boot.pdf

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