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| author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2011-02-15 10:24:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2011-02-15 10:24:31 +0100 |
| commit | 0a9d59a2461477bd9ed143c01af9df3f8f00fa81 (patch) | |
| tree | df997d1cfb0786427a0df1fbd6f0640fa4248cf4 /Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt | |
| parent | MAINTAINERS: fix sorting (diff) | |
| parent | klist: Fix object alignment on 64-bit. (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' into for-next
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diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt index ddeb749c5503..6b5c42dbbe84 100644 --- a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt +++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Parameters: <cipher> <key> <iv_offset> <device path> <offset> <cipher> Encryption cipher and an optional IV generation mode. - (In format cipher-chainmode-ivopts:ivmode). + (In format cipher[:keycount]-chainmode-ivopts:ivmode). Examples: des aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 @@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ Parameters: <cipher> <key> <iv_offset> <device path> <offset> Key used for encryption. It is encoded as a hexadecimal number. You can only use key sizes that are valid for the selected cipher. +<keycount> + Multi-key compatibility mode. You can define <keycount> keys and + then sectors are encrypted according to their offsets (sector 0 uses key0; + sector 1 uses key1 etc.). <keycount> must be a power of two. + <iv_offset> The IV offset is a sector count that is added to the sector number before creating the IV. |