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From: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>
To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>,
	Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>,
	Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>, help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: PSA for LUKS users
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 11:32:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7aee4c5d-662a-52fe-dbc3-7ba4893109ae@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edoftd1x.fsf@wireframe>

Am 20.04.23 um 06:03 schrieb Vagrant Cascadian:
> On 2023-04-19, Felix Lechner via wrote:
>> Given the broad popularity of LUKS full-disk encryption among our
>> fellow Guix users, I thought the community might appreciate reading
>> about potentially weak key-derivation functions in older LUKS
>> installations. [1]
>>
>> The article even offers fixes, although I cannot say whether your
>> system will boot after you follow the steps since I do not use LUKS
>> personally. Stay safe!
> ...
>> [1] https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66429.html
>
> In short, those instructions will almost certainly break Guix System!

Can confirm :) At least the described backup & restore procedure does work.

I also think, that our cryptsetup is quite old, so I built a patch for
updating: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/62960

> While recent grub2 finally has limited support for luks2, it only
> supports the weaker KDF (key derivation function) (PBKDF2?), as I
> understand it, though would be happy to be proven wrong!

The support seems pretty limited, as I only updated the LUKS version of
my root-partition to version 2 (still PBKDF) and it already refused to
boot...

~Jonathan


  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-20  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-20  2:45 PSA for LUKS users Felix Lechner via
2023-04-20  4:03 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2023-04-20  9:32   ` Jonathan Brielmaier [this message]
2023-04-20  9:39   ` Attila Lendvai
2023-04-20 13:55     ` kiasoc5
2023-04-20 16:31       ` Josselin Poiret

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