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From: Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name>
To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
Cc: 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 09:39:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8Z58Uzi580jS79bwOT89HTjLT2z5IWEdtG1XfM_LkrFCkHgaivLtTswSn3mqxe4VBXiK6u0QIbM_TuE3-eKuv9S4-Yv3O-XA-loO3sY0Dzc=@lendvai.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edoftd1x.fsf@wireframe>

> 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!


i have just spent half an hour reading the linked PR's and patch emails, and unfortunately you seem to be right.

i don't see why progress is so slow on this. some of the patches are 5+ years old! and the submitters seem to be constructive and responsive.

a good entry point that collects the relevant links:

https://github.com/johnlane/grub/issues/21

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-20 10:53 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
2023-04-20  9:39   ` Attila Lendvai [this message]
2023-04-20 13:55     ` kiasoc5
2023-04-20 16:31       ` Josselin Poiret

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