This is the announcement for the seventh release of the 1.0.x series
of cryptsetup (previously known as cryptsetup-luks).
The changes from 1.0.5 are:
* Fail early for unaccessible devices
* Require O_EXCL access for luksOpen, so users don't create two
mappings for the same underlying block device (which would cause
file system corruption when mounted twice).
* Add -s option to luksAddKey so the user can specify the key slot for new key (Marc Merlin)
* Clean temporary mappings when hitting Ctrl-C at the password prompt
* Run udevsettle after device creation (Matthias Koenig)
* Man page improvements (Jonas Meuer)
* Swedish translation courtesy (Daniel Nylander)
http://luks.endorphin.org/dm-crypt
Direct link to source repository: http://luks.endorphin.org/sources
Thanks for the feedback on the last pre release. Changes from 1.0.6-pre1 are
* Report correct unlocked key slot thanks to Nikolay F. Fetisov
* Add luksRemoveKey to manpage thanks to Till Maas
* Bug fix in luksAddKey (key_size=0 for LUKS implying infinite key material) thanks to Michal Hlavnika
Thanks to all contributors and bug hunters.
I would also like to give you an outlook for 1.1.0:
* Finally move a backup copy of all key material (not just the header)
at the end of the partition. I will bump the LUKS header version for
that, so that the header at the beginning knows where its backup
resized, and can verify whether its in place on (luks)open
actions. There will be a (luks)repair operation that can restore the
starting header from the ending and vice-versa.
* move all LUKS specific actions into a new command line binary named
'lukssetup'. Historically LUKS started as an extension to cryptsetup
justifying the separate prefix for all its actions. Nowadays it
seems LUKS is the major use case. The conversion scheme is
cryptsetup luksFoobar -> lukssetup foobar. With this step I hope to
remove a bit of confusion for users unfamilar with all the actions
(surfaced recently around the reload action).
* Probably polish libcryptsetup to make it into a usable library (but
this depends on the contributions)
--
Fruhwirth Clemens - http://clemens.endorphin.org
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