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SubjectRe: dm-crypt crypt_status reports key?
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On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 05:15 -0500, Christopher Warner wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 15:18 +0100, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote:
> >
> > Keys are handed to dm-crypt regularly the first time. But when dm-crypt
> > hands keys back to user space, it uses some sort of blinding to make the
> > keys meaningless for user space.

> I've been following this thread and i'm clearly at a loss as to how any
> of this will prevent someone from writing a util to get the key?

This is not about trying to hide something which cannot be hidden.

See http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/2/2/256 . It's about a design that can
cope with unintentional program/user errors. Think of it as a trigger
safety.

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Fruhwirth Clemens <clemens@endorphin.org> http://clemens.endorphin.org
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