Commit e3dcc5a3 authored by Milan Broz's avatar Milan Broz Committed by Alasdair G Kergon

dm crypt: add documentation

Add description of dm-crypt to device-mapper documentation.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMilan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
parent cf13ab8e
dm-crypt
=========
Device-Mapper's "crypt" target provides transparent encryption of block devices
using the kernel crypto API.
Parameters: <cipher> <key> <iv_offset> <device path> <offset>
<cipher>
Encryption cipher and an optional IV generation mode.
(In format cipher-chainmode-ivopts:ivmode).
Examples:
des
aes-cbc-essiv:sha256
twofish-ecb
/proc/crypto contains supported crypto modes
<key>
Key used for encryption. It is encoded as a hexadecimal number.
You can only use key sizes that are valid for the selected cipher.
<iv_offset>
The IV offset is a sector count that is added to the sector number
before creating the IV.
<device path>
This is the device that is going to be used as backend and contains the
encrypted data. You can specify it as a path like /dev/xxx or a device
number <major>:<minor>.
<offset>
Starting sector within the device where the encrypted data begins.
Example scripts
===============
LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) is now the preferred way to set up disk
encryption with dm-crypt using the 'cryptsetup' utility, see
http://luks.endorphin.org/
[[
#!/bin/sh
# Create a crypt device using dmsetup
dmsetup create crypt1 --table "0 `blockdev --getsize $1` crypt aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 babebabebabebabebabebabebabebabe 0 $1 0"
]]
[[
#!/bin/sh
# Create a crypt device using cryptsetup and LUKS header with default cipher
cryptsetup luksFormat $1
cryptsetup luksOpen $1 crypt1
]]
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