1 Cryptsetup 2.0.4 Release Notes
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3 Stable bug-fix release with new features.
5 Cryptsetup 2.x version introduces a new on-disk LUKS2 format.
7 The legacy LUKS (referenced as LUKS1) will be fully supported
8 forever as well as a traditional and fully backward compatible format.
10 Please note that authenticated disk encryption, non-cryptographic
11 data integrity protection (dm-integrity), use of Argon2 Password-Based
12 Key Derivation Function and the LUKS2 on-disk format itself are new
13 features and can contain some bugs.
15 To provide all security features of authenticated encryption, we need
16 a better nonce-reuse resistant algorithm in the kernel (see note below).
17 For now, please use authenticated encryption as an experimental feature.
19 Please do not use LUKS2 without properly configured backup or in
20 production systems that need to be compatible with older systems.
22 Changes since version 2.0.3
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25 * Use the libblkid (blockid) library to detect foreign signatures
26 on a device before LUKS format and LUKS2 auto-recovery.
28 This change fixes an unexpected recovery using the secondary
29 LUKS2 header after a device was already overwritten with
30 another format (filesystem or LVM physical volume).
32 LUKS2 will not recreate a primary header if it detects a valid
33 foreign signature. In this situation, a user must always
34 use cryptsetup repair command for the recovery.
36 Note that libcryptsetup and utilities are now linked to libblkid
39 To compile code without blockid support (strongly discouraged),
40 use --disable-blkid configure switch.
42 * Add prompt for format and repair actions in cryptsetup and
43 integritysetup if foreign signatures are detected on the device
44 through the blockid library.
46 After the confirmation, all known signatures are then wiped as
47 part of the format or repair procedure.
49 * Print consistent verbose message about keyslot and token numbers.
50 For keyslot actions: Key slot <number> unlocked/created/removed.
51 For token actions: Token <number> created/removed.
53 * Print error, if a non-existent token is tried to be removed.
55 * Add support for LUKS2 token definition export and import.
57 The token command now can export/import customized token JSON file
58 directly from command line. See the man page for more details.
60 * Add support for new dm-integrity superblock version 2.
62 * Add an error message when nothing was read from a key file.
64 * Update cryptsetup man pages, including --type option usage.
66 * Add a snapshot of LUKS2 format specification to documentation
67 and accordingly fix supported secondary header offsets.
69 * Add bundled optimized Argon2 SSE (X86_64 platform) code.
71 If the bundled Argon2 code is used and the new configure switch
72 --enable-internal-sse-argon2 option is present, and compiler flags
73 support required optimization, the code will try to use optimized
76 Always use the shared library (--enable-libargon2) if possible.
78 This option was added because an enterprise distribution
79 rejected to support the shared Argon2 library and native support
80 in generic cryptographic libraries is not ready yet.
82 * Fix compilation with crypto backend for LibreSSL >= 2.7.0.
83 LibreSSL introduced OpenSSL 1.1.x API functions, so compatibility
84 wrapper must be commented out.
86 * Fix on-disk header size calculation for LUKS2 format if a specific
87 data alignment is requested. Until now, the code used default size
88 that could be wrong for converted devices.
90 Unfinished things & TODO for next releases
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92 * Authenticated encryption will use new algorithms from CAESAR competition
93 https://competitions.cr.yp.to/caesar-submissions.html.
94 We plan to use AEGIS and MORUS (in kernel 4.18), as CAESAR finalists.
96 NOTE: Currently available authenticated modes (GCM, Chacha20-poly1305)
97 in the kernel have too small 96-bit nonces that are problematic with
98 randomly generated IVs (the collision probability is not negligible).
100 For more info about LUKS2 authenticated encryption, please see our paper
101 https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00309
103 * Authenticated encryption do not set encryption for a dm-integrity journal.
105 While it does not influence data confidentiality or integrity protection,
106 an attacker can get some more information from data journal or cause that
107 system will corrupt sectors after journal replay. (That corruption will be
110 * There are examples of user-defined tokens inside misc/luks2_keyslot_example
111 directory (like a simple external program that uses libssh to unlock LUKS2
112 using remote keyfile).
114 * The python binding (pycryptsetup) contains only basic functionality for LUKS1
115 (it is not updated for new features) and will be REMOVED in version 2.1
116 in favor of python bindings to the libblockdev library.
117 See https://github.com/storaged-project/libblockdev/releases that
118 already supports LUKS2 and VeraCrypt devices handling through libcryptsetup.