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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-17 08:06:26 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-17 08:06:26 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 2:2.6.1.upstream/2%2.6.1upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/docs/v2.0.4-ReleaseNotes b/docs/v2.0.4-ReleaseNotes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9731f59 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/v2.0.4-ReleaseNotes @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +Cryptsetup 2.0.4 Release Notes +============================== +Stable bug-fix release with new features. + +Cryptsetup 2.x version introduces a new on-disk LUKS2 format. + +The legacy LUKS (referenced as LUKS1) will be fully supported +forever as well as a traditional and fully backward compatible format. + +Please note that authenticated disk encryption, non-cryptographic +data integrity protection (dm-integrity), use of Argon2 Password-Based +Key Derivation Function and the LUKS2 on-disk format itself are new +features and can contain some bugs. + +To provide all security features of authenticated encryption, we need +a better nonce-reuse resistant algorithm in the kernel (see note below). +For now, please use authenticated encryption as an experimental feature. + +Please do not use LUKS2 without properly configured backup or in +production systems that need to be compatible with older systems. + +Changes since version 2.0.3 +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Use the libblkid (blockid) library to detect foreign signatures + on a device before LUKS format and LUKS2 auto-recovery. + + This change fixes an unexpected recovery using the secondary + LUKS2 header after a device was already overwritten with + another format (filesystem or LVM physical volume). + + LUKS2 will not recreate a primary header if it detects a valid + foreign signature. In this situation, a user must always + use cryptsetup repair command for the recovery. + + Note that libcryptsetup and utilities are now linked to libblkid + as a new dependence. + + To compile code without blockid support (strongly discouraged), + use --disable-blkid configure switch. + +* Add prompt for format and repair actions in cryptsetup and + integritysetup if foreign signatures are detected on the device + through the blockid library. + + After the confirmation, all known signatures are then wiped as + part of the format or repair procedure. + +* Print consistent verbose message about keyslot and token numbers. + For keyslot actions: Key slot <number> unlocked/created/removed. + For token actions: Token <number> created/removed. + +* Print error, if a non-existent token is tried to be removed. + +* Add support for LUKS2 token definition export and import. + + The token command now can export/import customized token JSON file + directly from command line. See the man page for more details. + +* Add support for new dm-integrity superblock version 2. + +* Add an error message when nothing was read from a key file. + +* Update cryptsetup man pages, including --type option usage. + +* Add a snapshot of LUKS2 format specification to documentation + and accordingly fix supported secondary header offsets. + +* Add bundled optimized Argon2 SSE (X86_64 platform) code. + + If the bundled Argon2 code is used and the new configure switch + --enable-internal-sse-argon2 option is present, and compiler flags + support required optimization, the code will try to use optimized + and faster variant. + + Always use the shared library (--enable-libargon2) if possible. + + This option was added because an enterprise distribution + rejected to support the shared Argon2 library and native support + in generic cryptographic libraries is not ready yet. + +* Fix compilation with crypto backend for LibreSSL >= 2.7.0. + LibreSSL introduced OpenSSL 1.1.x API functions, so compatibility + wrapper must be commented out. + +* Fix on-disk header size calculation for LUKS2 format if a specific + data alignment is requested. Until now, the code used default size + that could be wrong for converted devices. + +Unfinished things & TODO for next releases +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +* Authenticated encryption will use new algorithms from CAESAR competition + https://competitions.cr.yp.to/caesar-submissions.html. + We plan to use AEGIS and MORUS (in kernel 4.18), as CAESAR finalists. + + NOTE: Currently available authenticated modes (GCM, Chacha20-poly1305) + in the kernel have too small 96-bit nonces that are problematic with + randomly generated IVs (the collision probability is not negligible). + + For more info about LUKS2 authenticated encryption, please see our paper + https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00309 + +* Authenticated encryption do not set encryption for a dm-integrity journal. + + While it does not influence data confidentiality or integrity protection, + an attacker can get some more information from data journal or cause that + system will corrupt sectors after journal replay. (That corruption will be + detected though.) + +* There are examples of user-defined tokens inside misc/luks2_keyslot_example + directory (like a simple external program that uses libssh to unlock LUKS2 + using remote keyfile). + +* The python binding (pycryptsetup) contains only basic functionality for LUKS1 + (it is not updated for new features) and will be REMOVED in version 2.1 + in favor of python bindings to the libblockdev library. + See https://github.com/storaged-project/libblockdev/releases that + already supports LUKS2 and VeraCrypt devices handling through libcryptsetup. + |