Bug#355156: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#355156: cryptsetup: luksOpen does not work with readonly media anymore

Clemens Fruhwirth clemens at endorphin.org
Sun Mar 12 21:01:49 UTC 2006


Jonas Meurer <jonas at freesources.org> wrote:

> > However, we fixed the bug. The problem was that I restricted the length
> > (number of sectors) of a temporary dm-crypt mapping. However for devices
> > with non-512 sector size like DVDs, the length as well as the start must
> > be aligned to (device_sector_size/512). I will wrap up an rc3 as soon as
> > I have had time to take care of your error message proposals. 
> 
> great. would you like to send me the patch for this 'readonly' bug
> anyway? i plan to upload a new package within the next days, as i fixed
> some minor bugs and added support for openssl encrypted keyfiles. it
> would be great to have a fix for this bug as well.

Can you send me the patches? It's quite likely that they will contain
something useful for upstream too.

What is the purpose of encrypted openssl keyfiles?

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