[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#896968: linux: Please add userspace crypto ('algif_skcipher' module) to crypto-modules .udeb

[Guilhem Moulin]

Control: reassign -1 src:linux 4.15.0-3-amd64
Control: retitle -1 linux: Please add userspace crypto ('algif_skcipher' module) to crypto-modules .udeb
Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: tag -1 - moreinfo
Control: affects -1 cryptsetup

On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 at 14:47:30 +0200, Christian Dietrich wrote:
> it looks like "af_alg" and "algif_skcipher" kernel modules are not
> available in debian buster daily netinst iso.
> I've also checked ubuntu bionic beaver daily netinst iso, after adding
> libgcc1 everything is working as expected.
> "af_alg" and "algif_skcipher" kernel modules are available
> and automatically loaded.

Reassigning accordingly.  To the kernel maintainers: userspace crypto
(‘algif_skcipher’ kernel module) is required for opening LUKS2 devices,
hence for setting up LUKS2 devices during installation.

Demoting severity to ‘wishlist’ since LUKS1 is still the default LUKS
version and works just fine without that module.  (Moreover existing
LUKS1 devices can later be converted to LUKS2 — and vice versa — for
instance from the initramfs shell.)

-- 
Guilhem.
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