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Add support for bare dm-crypt partitions

Open anatol opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

booster currently supports encrypted partitions of LUKS format. LUKS is essentially a header that contains password information + dm-crypt data.

Add support for bare dm-crypt partitions. The key information and mounting options will be located somewhere else - either at other partitions (e.g., EFI) or other devices such as USB.

anatol avatar Apr 09 '22 18:04 anatol

In case it helps, there are three different key file location cases here that mkinitcpio supports:

  1. key file is on a block device, possibly with an offset
  2. key file is on a path on a file system on a block device
  3. key file is on a path on the initramfs

nsajko avatar May 05 '22 22:05 nsajko