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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] md: dm-crypt: Add Inline Encryption support for dmcrypt
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On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 10:04:14AM +0000, Ladvine D Almeida wrote:
> The idea is to make use of the existing utilities like dmsetup to configure the keys, mapping etc.

So fix the utilities to support your encryption instead of implementing
kernel-level shim code.

> TCG Opal/Opalite is FDE solution. right?

Doesn't have to the full disk, although that is the typical use case.