On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 07:32:45PM +0800, Mikael wrote: > 2015-10-06 19:27 GMT+08:00 Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name>: > > Perhaps this will answer your questions: > > http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2015-softraid-boot.pdf > > > > That one mentions nothing of what the keydisk is supposed to contain. > > Perhaps that was omitted for brevity?
Indeed, it's not explained in detail. The mask key is contained in an optional softraid meta data item. If no softraid meta date exists (as is the case when you zero the disk) fresh meta data with a fresh mask key is written to the key disk slice. Does that answer your question?
