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Bug#964187: cryptsetup: takes one minute to unlock the disk with a passphrase

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On 2020-07-06 02:34:56 +0200, Guilhem Moulin wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Jul 2020 at 01:48:45 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > If you let the user run a script that controls the timeout, that
> > would be better. For instance, a typical setting when dropbear is
> > used to unlock the disk(s) would be to set the timeout so that the
> > following conditions are *both* satisfied:
> > 
> > 1. Some lower bound has been reached (say 10 seconds).
> > 
> > 2. The passphrase has been validated.
> > 
> > This makes sense because in this case, it is useless to abort
> > wait_for_dropbear() while the passphrase has not been validated
> > yet.
> 
> wait_for_dropbear() runs at init-bottom stage, so after dm-crypt devices
> have been mapped (if cryptsetup-initramfs is installed and the crypttab
> is not empty, that is).  So you're essentially asking to set the timeout
> to 10s.

OK, so that's even simpler. A configurable timeout would be
sufficient.

> > BTW, I've just noticed that the timeout introduces a second annoying
> > regression: If there is a temporary issue with the DHCP server just
> > after the machine has been restarted, so that the timeout is reached,
> > the user will not be able to unlock the disk until he can go back in
> > front of his machine!
> 
> You mean the timeout from configure_networking() it init-premout stage?
[...]

Please forget that. I meant wait_for_dropbear(), but since it runs
after dm-crypt devices have been mapped, there is no issue.

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Bug#964187: cryptsetup: takes one minute to unlock the disk with a passphrase Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2020-07-03 13:00 +0200
  Bug#964187: cryptsetup: takes one minute to unlock the disk with a passphrase Guilhem Moulin <guilhem@debian.org> - 2020-07-03 16:20 +0200
    Bug#964187: cryptsetup: takes one minute to unlock the disk with a passphrase Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2020-07-04 00:30 +0200
      Bug#964187: cryptsetup: takes one minute to unlock the disk with a passphrase Guilhem Moulin <guilhem@debian.org> - 2020-07-04 00:40 +0200
        Bug#964187: cryptsetup: takes one minute to unlock the disk with a passphrase Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2020-07-04 01:00 +0200
          Bug#964187: cryptsetup: takes one minute to unlock the disk with a passphrase Guilhem Moulin <guilhem@debian.org> - 2020-07-04 01:10 +0200
            Bug#964187: cryptsetup: takes one minute to unlock the disk with a passphrase Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2020-07-05 12:20 +0200
              Bug#964187: cryptsetup: takes one minute to unlock the disk with a passphrase Guilhem Moulin <guilhem@debian.org> - 2020-07-05 16:40 +0200
                Bug#964187: cryptsetup: takes one minute to unlock the disk with a passphrase Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2020-07-06 01:00 +0200
                Bug#964187: cryptsetup: takes one minute to unlock the disk with a passphrase Guilhem Moulin <guilhem@debian.org> - 2020-07-06 01:10 +0200
                Bug#964187: cryptsetup: takes one minute to unlock the disk with a passphrase Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2020-07-06 02:00 +0200
                Bug#964187: cryptsetup: takes one minute to unlock the disk with a passphrase Guilhem Moulin <guilhem@debian.org> - 2020-07-06 02:40 +0200
                Bug#964187: cryptsetup: takes one minute to unlock the disk with a passphrase Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2020-07-06 19:20 +0200

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