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Cryptsetup 2.0.6 Release Notes
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Stable bug-fix release.
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All users of cryptsetup 2.0.x should upgrade to this version.
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Cryptsetup 2.x version introduces a new on-disk LUKS2 format.
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The legacy LUKS (referenced as LUKS1) will be fully supported
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forever as well as a traditional and fully backward compatible format.
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Please note that authenticated disk encryption, non-cryptographic
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data integrity protection (dm-integrity), use of Argon2 Password-Based
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Key Derivation Function and the LUKS2 on-disk format itself are new
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features and can contain some bugs.
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Please do not use LUKS2 without properly configured backup or in
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production systems that need to be compatible with older systems.
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Changes since version 2.0.5
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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* Fix support of larger metadata areas in LUKS2 header.
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This release properly supports all specified metadata areas, as documented
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in LUKS2 format description (see docs/on-disk-format-luks2.pdf in archive).
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Currently, only default metadata area size is used (in format or convert).
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Later cryptsetup versions will allow increasing this metadata area size.
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* If AEAD (authenticated encryption) is used, cryptsetup now tries to check
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if the requested AEAD algorithm with specified key size is available
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in kernel crypto API.
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This change avoids formatting a device that cannot be later activated.
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For this function, the kernel must be compiled with the
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CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_AEAD option enabled.
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Note that kernel user crypto API options (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API and
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CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER) are already mandatory for LUKS2.
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* Fix setting of integrity no-journal flag.
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Now you can store this flag to metadata using --persistent option.
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* Fix cryptsetup-reencrypt to not keep temporary reencryption headers
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if interrupted during initial password prompt.
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* Adds early check to plain and LUKS2 formats to disallow device format
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if device size is not aligned to requested sector size.
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Previously it was possible, and the device was rejected to activate by
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kernel later.
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* Fix checking of hash algorithms availability for PBKDF early.
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Previously LUKS2 format allowed non-existent hash algorithm with
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invalid keyslot preventing the device from activation.
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* Allow Adiantum cipher construction (a non-authenticated length-preserving
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fast encryption scheme), so it can be used both for data encryption and
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keyslot encryption in LUKS1/2 devices.
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For benchmark, use:
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# cryptsetup benchmark -c xchacha12,aes-adiantum
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# cryptsetup benchmark -c xchacha20,aes-adiantum
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For LUKS format:
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# cryptsetup luksFormat -c xchacha20,aes-adiantum-plain64 -s 256 <device>
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The support for Adiantum will be merged in Linux kernel 4.21.
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For more info see the paper https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/720.
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Unfinished things & TODO for next releases
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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* Authenticated encryption should use new algorithms from CAESAR competition
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https://competitions.cr.yp.to/caesar-submissions.html.
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AEGIS and MORUS are already available in kernel 4.18.
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For more info about LUKS2 authenticated encryption, please see our paper
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00309
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Please note that authenticated encryption is still an experimental feature
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and can have performance problems for high-speed devices and device
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with larger IO blocks (like RAID).
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* Authenticated encryption do not set encryption for a dm-integrity journal.
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While it does not influence data confidentiality or integrity protection,
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an attacker can get some more information from data journal or cause that
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system will corrupt sectors after journal replay. (That corruption will be
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detected though.)
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* There are examples of user-defined tokens inside misc/luks2_keyslot_example
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directory (like a simple external program that uses libssh to unlock LUKS2
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using remote keyfile).
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* The python binding (pycryptsetup) contains only basic functionality for LUKS1
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(it is not updated for new features) and will be REMOVED in version 2.1
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in favor of python bindings to the libblockdev library.
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See https://github.com/storaged-project/libblockdev/releases that
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already supports LUKS2 and VeraCrypt devices handling through libcryptsetup.
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@@ -1176,6 +1176,9 @@ Specify integrity algorithm to be used for authenticated disk encryption in LUKS
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\fBWARNING: This extension is EXPERIMENTAL\fR and requires dm-integrity
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kernel target (available since kernel version 4.12).
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For native AEAD modes, also enable "User-space interface for AEAD cipher algorithms"
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in "Cryptographic API" section (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_AEAD .config option).
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For more info, see \fIAUTHENTICATED DISK ENCRYPTION\fR section.
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.TP
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.B "\-\-integrity\-no\-journal"
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