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Questions - device-mapper

LUKS and dm-crypt distinction responsibilities

Reading through the documentation of both dm-crypt and LUKS, I understand that LUKS is a format specification to allow FDE, and that dm-crypt is a dm target which allows encryption / decryption of wri...
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Jasper

linux

encryption

data-integrity

device-mapper

luks

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Lets start from the kernel part: Device mapper is a kernel driver that allows creating new block devices from existing ones. It provides multiple additional features like RAID, caching or encryption ...
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Vojtech Trefny

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