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Fscrypt v2 working in initrd

May 02, 2023 — BarryK

On April 29, posted about migrating from ext4 fscrypt v1 to v2:

https://bkhome.org/news/202304/preliminary-support-for-fscrypt-v2.html

Then to improve encryption security, added argon2 to hash the password:

https://bkhome.org/news/202304/password-converted-to-64-byte-hash.html

First bootup worked, but there was a problem at reboot, now fixed:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/136c20f299217534c7e1f03e734c4e905fb6d3da

Next up, need to study usage differences between v1 and v2 when running apps as their own user.   

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