[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#537344: cryptsetup: Wrong encrypted swap example in crypttab manpage

[Jan]

Package: cryptsetup
Version: 2:1.0.4+svn26-1
Severity: minor

The manpage of crypttab contains the following example:

# Encrypted swap device
cswap /dev/sda6 /dev/random swap

At boottime if /dev/random does not provide enough entropy the whole boot process is hanging.

proposed solution: use /dev/urandom as keysource as it is also proposed here
http://linux.die.net/man/5/crypttab




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-amd64
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 at euro (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages cryptsetup depends on:
ii  dms 2:1.02.08-1                          The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  lib 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9                    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lib 2:1.02.08-1                          The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  lib 1.2.3-2                              LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  lib 1.4-1                                library for common error values an
ii  lib 1.10-3                               lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  lib 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1 universally unique id library

cryptsetup recommends no packages.

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