Root/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt

1dm-crypt
2=========
3
4Device-Mapper's "crypt" target provides transparent encryption of block devices
5using the kernel crypto API.
6
7Parameters: <cipher> <key> <iv_offset> <device path> \
8          <offset> [<#opt_params> <opt_params>]
9
10<cipher>
11    Encryption cipher and an optional IV generation mode.
12    (In format cipher[:keycount]-chainmode-ivopts:ivmode).
13    Examples:
14       des
15       aes-cbc-essiv:sha256
16       twofish-ecb
17
18    /proc/crypto contains supported crypto modes
19
20<key>
21    Key used for encryption. It is encoded as a hexadecimal number.
22    You can only use key sizes that are valid for the selected cipher.
23
24<keycount>
25    Multi-key compatibility mode. You can define <keycount> keys and
26    then sectors are encrypted according to their offsets (sector 0 uses key0;
27    sector 1 uses key1 etc.). <keycount> must be a power of two.
28
29<iv_offset>
30    The IV offset is a sector count that is added to the sector number
31    before creating the IV.
32
33<device path>
34    This is the device that is going to be used as backend and contains the
35    encrypted data. You can specify it as a path like /dev/xxx or a device
36    number <major>:<minor>.
37
38<offset>
39    Starting sector within the device where the encrypted data begins.
40
41<#opt_params>
42    Number of optional parameters. If there are no optional parameters,
43    the optional paramaters section can be skipped or #opt_params can be zero.
44    Otherwise #opt_params is the number of following arguments.
45
46    Example of optional parameters section:
47        1 allow_discards
48
49allow_discards
50    Block discard requests (a.k.a. TRIM) are passed through the crypt device.
51    The default is to ignore discard requests.
52
53    WARNING: Assess the specific security risks carefully before enabling this
54    option. For example, allowing discards on encrypted devices may lead to
55    the leak of information about the ciphertext device (filesystem type,
56    used space etc.) if the discarded blocks can be located easily on the
57    device later.
58
59Example scripts
60===============
61LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) is now the preferred way to set up disk
62encryption with dm-crypt using the 'cryptsetup' utility, see
63http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/
64
65[[
66#!/bin/sh
67# Create a crypt device using dmsetup
68dmsetup create crypt1 --table "0 `blockdev --getsize $1` crypt aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 babebabebabebabebabebabebabebabe 0 $1 0"
69]]
70
71[[
72#!/bin/sh
73# Create a crypt device using cryptsetup and LUKS header with default cipher
74cryptsetup luksFormat $1
75cryptsetup luksOpen $1 crypt1
76]]
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