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Berrange" To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 18:27:34 +0100 Message-Id: <20170601172734.9039-21-berrange@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20170601172734.9039-1-berrange@redhat.com> References: <20170601172734.9039-1-berrange@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.12 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.26]); Thu, 01 Jun 2017 17:29:23 +0000 (UTC) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 20/20] docs: document encryption options for qcow, qcow2 and luks X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Kevin Wolf , Alberto Garcia , qemu-block@nongnu.org, Max Reitz Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+importer=patchew.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" X-ZohoMail: RSF_0 Z_629925259 SPT_0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Expand the image format docs to cover the new options for the qcow, qcow2 and luks disk image formats Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia Reviewed-by: Eric Blake Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange --- qemu-doc.texi | 123 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++= ---- 1 file changed, 115 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi index de0cc30..2b31cc2 100644 --- a/qemu-doc.texi +++ b/qemu-doc.texi @@ -546,10 +546,20 @@ File name of a base image (see @option{create} subcom= mand) @item backing_fmt Image format of the base image @item encryption -If this option is set to @code{on}, the image is encrypted with 128-bit AE= S-CBC. +This option is deprecated and equivalent to @code{encrypt.format=3Daes} =20 -The use of encryption in qcow and qcow2 images is considered to be flawed = by -modern cryptography standards, suffering from a number of design problems: +@item encrypt.format + +If this is set to @code{luks}, it requests that the qcow2 payload (not +qcow2 header) be encrypted using the LUKS format. The passphrase to +use to unlock the LUKS key slot is given by the @code{encrypt.key-secret} +parameter. LUKS encryption parameters can be tuned with the other +@code{encrypt.*} parameters. + +If this is set to @code{aes}, the image is encrypted with 128-bit AES-CBC. +The encryption key is given by the @code{encrypt.key-secret} parameter. +This encryption format is considered to be flawed by modern cryptography +standards, suffering from a number of design problems: =20 @itemize @minus @item The AES-CBC cipher is used with predictable initialization vectors b= ased @@ -564,10 +574,45 @@ original file must then be securely erased using a pr= ogram like shred, though even this is ineffective with many modern storage technologies. @end itemize =20 -Use of qcow / qcow2 encryption with QEMU is deprecated, and support for -it will go away in a future release. Users are recommended to use an -alternative encryption technology such as the Linux dm-crypt / LUKS -system. +The use of this is no longer supported in system emulators. Support only +remains in the command line utilities, for the purposes of data liberation +and interoperability with old versions of QEMU. The @code{luks} format +should be used instead. + +@item encrypt.key-secret + +Provides the ID of a @code{secret} object that contains the passphrase +(@code{encrypt.format=3Dluks}) or encryption key (@code{encrypt.format=3Da= es}). + +@item encrypt.cipher-alg + +Name of the cipher algorithm and key length. Currently defaults +to @code{aes-256}. Only used when @code{encrypt.format=3Dluks}. + +@item encrypt.cipher-mode + +Name of the encryption mode to use. Currently defaults to @code{xts}. +Only used when @code{encrypt.format=3Dluks}. + +@item encrypt.ivgen-alg + +Name of the initialization vector generator algorithm. Currently defaults +to @code{plain64}. Only used when @code{encrypt.format=3Dluks}. + +@item encrypt.ivgen-hash-alg + +Name of the hash algorithm to use with the initialization vector generator +(if required). Defaults to @code{sha256}. Only used when @code{encrypt.for= mat=3Dluks}. + +@item encrypt.hash-alg + +Name of the hash algorithm to use for PBKDF algorithm +Defaults to @code{sha256}. Only used when @code{encrypt.format=3Dluks}. + +@item encrypt.iter-time + +Amount of time, in milliseconds, to use for PBKDF algorithm per key slot. +Defaults to @code{2000}. Only used when @code{encrypt.format=3Dluks}. =20 @item cluster_size Changes the qcow2 cluster size (must be between 512 and 2M). Smaller clust= er @@ -642,7 +687,69 @@ Supported options: @item backing_file File name of a base image (see @option{create} subcommand) @item encryption -If this option is set to @code{on}, the image is encrypted. +This option is deprecated and equivalent to @code{encrypt.format=3Daes} + +@item encrypt.format +If this is set to @code{aes}, the image is encrypted with 128-bit AES-CBC. +The encryption key is given by the @code{encrypt.key-secret} parameter. +This encryption format is considered to be flawed by modern cryptography +standards, suffering from a number of design problems enumerated previously +against the @code{qcow2} image format. + +The use of this is no longer supported in system emulators. Support only +remains in the command line utilities, for the purposes of data liberation +and interoperability with old versions of QEMU. + +Users requiring native encryption should use the @code{qcow2} format +instead with @code{encrypt.format=3Dluks}. + +@item encrypt.key-secret + +Provides the ID of a @code{secret} object that contains the encryption +key (@code{encrypt.format=3Daes}). + +@end table + +@item luks + +LUKS v1 encryption format, compatible with Linux dm-crypt/cryptsetup + +Supported options: +@table @code + +@item key-secret + +Provides the ID of a @code{secret} object that contains the passphrase. + +@item cipher-alg + +Name of the cipher algorithm and key length. Currently defaults +to @code{aes-256}. + +@item cipher-mode + +Name of the encryption mode to use. Currently defaults to @code{xts}. + +@item ivgen-alg + +Name of the initialization vector generator algorithm. Currently defaults +to @code{plain64}. + +@item ivgen-hash-alg + +Name of the hash algorithm to use with the initialization vector generator +(if required). Defaults to @code{sha256}. + +@item hash-alg + +Name of the hash algorithm to use for PBKDF algorithm +Defaults to @code{sha256}. + +@item iter-time + +Amount of time, in milliseconds, to use for PBKDF algorithm per key slot. +Defaults to @code{2000}. + @end table =20 @item vdi --=20 2.9.3