Sesame overlap with LUKS

[W. Michael Petullo]

David Zeuthen's "sesame" proposal may have some overlap with the LUKS
project.  From the LUKS project description:

> LUKS works by prepending a partition header (luks_phdr) to the
> partition, where setup information like cipher, keysize is stored
> as well as key slots.  A key slots is holding an encrypted version
> of the master key. The master key is used to encrypt bulk data. It
> will never be stored to disk directly, but encrypted version of the
> master key will be stored. To be more precise, every version of the
> master key is encrypted by a different passphrase and stored a
> separate key slot. The user needs to provide one passphrase only,
> since any correct passphrase will restore a copy of the master key.

More information about the LUKS project may be found here:

http://clemens.endorphin.org/LUKS

Should the hal folks work with the LUKS folks instead of trying to design
another crypto-metadata system?

--
Mike

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