Re: PSA for LUKS users

[Attila Lendvai]

> While recent grub2 finally has limited support for luks2, it only
> supports the weaker KDF (key derivation function) (PBKDF2?), as I
> understand it, though would be happy to be proven wrong!


i have just spent half an hour reading the linked PR's and patch emails, and 
unfortunately you seem to be right.

i don't see why progress is so slow on this. some of the patches are 5+ years 
old! and the submitters seem to be constructive and responsive.

a good entry point that collects the relevant links:

https://github.com/johnlane/grub/issues/21

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