<cipher>
Encryption cipher and an optional IV generation mode.
- (In format cipher-chainmode-ivopts:ivmode).
+ (In format cipher[:keycount]-chainmode-ivopts:ivmode).
Examples:
des
aes-cbc-essiv:sha256
Key used for encryption. It is encoded as a hexadecimal number.
You can only use key sizes that are valid for the selected cipher.
+<keycount>
+ Multi-key compatibility mode. You can define <keycount> keys and
+ then sectors are encrypted according to their offsets (sector 0 uses key0;
+ sector 1 uses key1 etc.). <keycount> must be a power of two.
+
<iv_offset>
The IV offset is a sector count that is added to the sector number
before creating the IV.