Re: Kdump with full-disk LUKS encryption

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On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 01:12:07PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-04-19 at 12:02 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 06:00:38PM +0800, Kairui Song wrote:
> > > 2. LUKS2 prefers Argon2 as the key derivation function, designed to
> > > use a lot of memory. kdump is expected to use a minimal amount of
> > > memory. Users will have to reserve a huge amount of memory for kdump
> > > to work (eg. 1G reserve for kdump with 4G total memory which is not
> > > reasonable).
> > 
> > I'm just going to sympathise with you rather than provide a good
> > answer here ...  We had the same problem in libguestfs where Argon2
> > used too much memory for our small appliance when opening LUKS2 disks.
> > We had to simply increase the amount of memory reserved, which is far
> > from ideal.
> 
> Or you could switch to use PBKDF2, it is still a supported and
> reasonable option.

libguestfs has to open whatever disk image the user gives it, and whoever
built the image originally decided whether it uses Argon2 or PBKDF2.

Regards,
Daniel
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