[systemd-devel] [PATCH] cryptsetup: add keyfile-offset= support

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 29.06.12 13:40, Tom Gundersen (teg at jklm.no) wrote:

> This is useful if your keyfile is a block device, and you want to
> use a specific part of it, such as an area between the MBR and the
> first partition.
> 
> This feature is documented in the Arch wiki[0], and has been supported
> by the Arch initscripts, so would be nice to get this into systemd.

Hmm, I am not opposed to merge this, but before I do: I am a bit puzzled
what the usecase for this is -- why would you store the key like this?
Kinda defeats the purpose of encryption, no?

Lennart

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