On Wed, 2021-08-11 at 10:16 -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:

Neither of you actually answered my question, which is whether the support for
trusted keys in dm-crypt is a mistake.  I think you're saying that it is?  That
would imply that fscrypt shouldn't support trusted keys, but rather encrypted
keys -- which conflicts with Ahmad's patch which is adding support for trusted
keys.  Note that your reasoning for this is not documented at all in the
trusted-encrypted keys documentation; it needs to be (email threads don't really
matter), otherwise how would anyone know when/how to use this feature?

True, but all of the trusted-encrypted key examples in the
documentation are "encrypted" type keys, encrypted/decrypted based on a
"trusted" type key.  There are no examples of using the "trusted" key
type directly.  Before claiming that adding "trusted" key support in
dm-crypt was a mistake, we should ask Ahmad why he felt dm-crypt needed
to directly support "trusted" type keys.

Mimi