Hello David, Am 26.10.2012 04:06, schrieb Li, David: > > I am testing with a loop device /dev/loop0. I want to use a 256-bit key > file. > > First I did: > /-bash-4.1# cryptsetup --key-file keyfile-1 luksFormat /dev/loop0/ ... for me your example works but I have sha256, aes and cbc loaded (which is required as you use aes as crypto-mode, sha256 as hash and cbc as block-mode or what ever it is called). The setup is not proper as you see there is no key slot used. > Question #2. I went thru FAQ and didn’t quite find an example using > key-file to setup LUKS. But I found this line: > > /cryptsetup luksOpen //--//key//-//file keyfile /////dev/////loop0 e1/ > > what is e1 here? Can someone give an example using key-file to set up a > LUKS partition. e1 is the name of the crypt mapping. After opening the mapping you can access it under /dev/mapper/e1 (e.g. to create a file system). Greets, Dennis _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
