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Bug#759588: marked as done (release-notes: Disk encrypted with cryptsetup LUKS whirlpool needs to be migrated manually)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #759588,
regarding release-notes: Disk encrypted with cryptsetup LUKS whirlpool needs to be migrated manually
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Package: release-notes
Severity: normal

Quoting cryptsetup's NEWS file:

I must tell that I don't know if whirlpool is the default crypo or not.

> cryptsetup (2:1.6.4-5) unstable; urgency=medium
> 
>  The whirlpool hash implemenation has been broken in gcrypt until version
>  1.5.3. This has been fixed in subsequent gcrypt releases. In particular,
>  the gcrypt version that is used by cryptsetup starting with this release,
>  has the bug fixed. Consequently, LUKS containers created with broken
>  whirlpool will fail to open from now on.
>
>  In the case that you're affected by the whirlpool bug, please read section
>  '8.3 Gcrypt after 1.5.3 breaks Whirlpool' of the cryptsetup FAQ at
>  https://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions carefully.
>  It explains how to open your LUKS container and reencrypt it afterwards.
>
> -- Jonas Meurer <mejo@debian.org>  Tue, 04 Mar 2014 23:17:37 +0100


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On 2014-11-25 15:19, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> Am 25.11.2014 um 13:43 schrieb Osamu Aoki:
>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 08:33:06AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
>>> On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 23:15:00 +0200 Jonas Meurer <jonas@freesources.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Am 11.09.2014 um 16:43 schrieb Osamu Aoki:
>> [...]
>>
>> Proposed text with or without grep thing looks good tome.
> 
> Yes, looks good to me as well. Thanks a lot for taking care. The grep
> for whirlpool in luksDump output should work as well.
> 
> Cheers,
>  jonas
> 
> 

Thanks for your feedback, I have committed the section (with the
command).  :)

~Niels

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