Re: Support for detached LUKS header

[Daniel Kiper]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 11:30:14AM +0100, Yannik Sembritzki wrote:
> Hello,
>
> unfortunately, the patches for cryptomount
>
> ?????? 0001-Cryptomount-support-LUKS-detached-header.patch
> ?????? 0002-Cryptomount-support-key-files.patch
> ?????? 0003-Cryptomount-luks-allow-multiple-passphrase-attempts.patch
> ?????? 0004-Cryptomount-support-plain-dm-crypt.patch
> ?????? 0005-Cryptomount-support-for-hyphens-in-UUID.patch
>
> which were submitted to grub-devel in 2015 (see
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2015-06/msg00109.html) and
> were again discussed on the grub-help mailing list last year, with the
> result of revisiting after the next release, have still not been merged.
>
> The author of these patches has provided a summary page about the
> patches here: http://grub.johnlane.ie/
>
> I would personally advocate for merging these patches, as I see immense
> use in them. To provide plausible deniability in a crypto setup,
> detached luks headers are very much required.
>
> Could anyone give their approval for merging?

May I ask you or the original author to rebase the patches
on the latest master? Then I will take a look. And please
do not forget to CC me.

Daniel