Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 14/19] conf: Add new secret type "key"
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 20:27:53 -0400, John Ferlan wrote:
Add a new secret type known as "key" - it will handle
adding the secret
objects that need a key (or passphrase), such as will soon be the case
This may be misleading a "key" is not equal to a "passprhase" in
usual
encryption terminology. Key usually refers to the actual encryption key
used to encrypt the data whereas passprhase is usually a human readable
secret string (which may not be random at all) used to access the key
later.
The cryptsetup man page tends to treat them interchangably to some
extent (eg a key slot equals to passprhase, but the master key refers to
the actual encryption key used for the data).
To avoid confusion I'd rather stick with "passphrase".
for a luks volume for both storage driver create and libvirt domain
usage.
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan(a)redhat.com>
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