Introduction

Authors

luksipc was written by Johannes Bauer <JohannesBauer@gmx.de>. Please report all bugs directly to his email address or file a issue at GitHub (URL is below). If you do not wish to be named in the ChangeLog or this README file, please tell me and I’ll omit your name. Inversely, if I forgot to include you in this list and you would like to appear, please drop me a note and I’ll fix it.

There are several contributors to the project:

  • Eric Murray (cryptsetup status issue)

  • Christian Pulvermacher (cryptsetup status issue)

  • John Morrissey (large header issue)

The current version is maintained at GitHub at the moment: https://github.com/johndoe31415/luksipc

The project documentation can be found at: https://johndoe31415.github.io/luksipc

The projects main page is hosted at: https://johannes-bauer.com/linux/luksipc/

Please send issues and pull requests to GitHub if you would like to contribute. I do have a horrible latency sometimes but I’ll try to do my best, promise.

Disclaimer

If you use luksipc and it bricks your disk and destroys all your data then that’s your fault, not mine. luksips comes without any warranty (neither expressed nor implied). Please have a backup for really, really important data.

Compiling

luksipc has no external dependencies, it should compile just fine if you have a recent Linux distribution with GNU make and gcc installed. Just type:

$ make

That’s it. At runtime, it needs access to the cryptsetup and dmsetup tools in the PATH.

luksipc vs. cryptsetup-reencrypt

luksipc has nothing to do with cryptsetup-reencrypt. It was simply created because at the time that luksipc was written, cryptsetup-reencrypt hadn’t been written just yet. On modern systems, cryptsetup-reencrypt is already shipped with the LUKS tools and it’s also the supported tool by LUKS upstream. Therefore, to be frank, it seems like the better choice to use nowadays. I’ve never used cryptsetup-reencrypt myself so far, but will probably try it out on the next best occasion (then I can also update this README with a more insightful comment instead of just clueless jibber jabber).