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Date:      Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:01:16 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nick Ulen <uncle@wolfman.devio.us>
Cc:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: geli,last sector
Message-ID:  <20110617130116.GA12866@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20110617073943.GA29016@wolfman.devio.us>
References:  <20110617073943.GA29016@wolfman.devio.us>

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On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 03:39:43AM -0400, Nick Ulen wrote:
> According to man GELI(8) : "The last provider's sector is used to store=
=20
> metadata."
> Are data from last sector stand out among all others random data?
> Does this mean it is possible to define that some slice was encrypted=20
> exactly with use geli?

Yes, if a GEOM provider is encrypted using GELI, the last sector will
start with "GEOM::ELI" string (if you are not using onetime keys).

I started to work on extension to GELI to allow for "deniable" providers
creation where even metadata looks random, but before I finished it,
more important stuff appeared on my TODO list.

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