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dm-crypt: Document integrity_key_size option.

This patch adds documentation for new option introduced in commit
4441686b24a1 ("dm-crypt: Allow to specify the integrity key size as option").

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>

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Milan Broz and committed by
Mikulas Patocka
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Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-crypt.rst
··· 146 146 integrity for the encrypted device. The additional space is then 147 147 used for storing authentication tag (and persistent IV if needed). 148 148 149 + integrity_key_size:<bytes> 150 + Optionally set the integrity key size if it differs from the digest size. 151 + It allows the use of wrapped key algorithms where the key size is 152 + independent of the cryptographic key size. 153 + 149 154 sector_size:<bytes> 150 155 Use <bytes> as the encryption unit instead of 512 bytes sectors. 151 156 This option can be in range 512 - 4096 bytes and must be power of two.