On Wed, 2021-08-11 at 10:16 -0700, Eric Biggers wrote: > Neither of you actually answered my question, which is whether the support for > trusted keys in dm-crypt is a mistake. I think you're saying that it is? That > would imply that fscrypt shouldn't support trusted keys, but rather encrypted > keys -- which conflicts with Ahmad's patch which is adding support for trusted > keys. Note that your reasoning for this is not documented at all in the > trusted-encrypted keys documentation; it needs to be (email threads don't really > matter), otherwise how would anyone know when/how to use this feature? True, but all of the trusted-encrypted key examples in the documentation are "encrypted" type keys, encrypted/decrypted based on a "trusted" type key. There are no examples of using the "trusted" key type directly. Before claiming that adding "trusted" key support in dm-crypt was a mistake, we should ask Ahmad why he felt dm-crypt needed to directly support "trusted" type keys. Mimi