The following change has also been pushed for os-brick to correct this : encryptors: Workaround mangled passphrases https://review.openstack.org/#/c/397934/ As with the Nova change I've now manually verified this. To do so I also had to use the following change moving Nova to use the os-brick supplied encryptors : DNM - encryptors: Switch to os-brick encryptor classes https://review.openstack.org/#/c/391597/ $ cinder type-create LUKS $ cinder encryption-type-create --cipher aes-xts-plain64 --key_size 512 --control_location front-end LUKS nova.volume.encryptors.luks.LuksEncryptor $ cinder create --volume-type LUKS 1 $ cinder set-bootable b9567416-f463-44ec-be70-c25977124614 true $ nova boot --boot-volume b9567416-f463-44ec-be70-c25977124614 --flavor 1 test $ nova delete test $ sudo cryptsetup luksAddKey /dev/mapper/stack--volumes--lvmdriver--1-volume--b9567416--f463--44ec--be70--c25977124614 Enter any existing passphrase: 010203040506 Enter new passphrase for key slot: 123456 Verify passphrase: 123456 $ sudo cryptsetup luksRemoveKey /dev/mapper/stack--volumes--lvmdriver--1-volume--b9567416--f463--44ec--be70--c25977124614 Enter passphrase to be deleted: 010203040506 $ sudo cryptsetup luksDump /dev/mapper/stack--volumes--lvmdriver--1-volume--b9567416--f463--44ec--be70--c25977124614 LUKS header information for /dev/mapper/stack--volumes--lvmdriver--1-volume--b9567416--f463--44ec--be70--c25977124614 Version: 1 Cipher name: aes Cipher mode: xts-plain64 Hash spec: sha256 Payload offset: 4096 MK bits: 512 MK digest: e1 48 9b 16 0f 2c 12 b2 e3 0f 59 5b a0 69 cd 2b 77 a8 e5 06 MK salt: ad b8 a8 ad ac c1 99 d8 55 59 7f 16 77 e1 1d 80 0f 14 81 e7 59 ed 39 f0 ce 44 ae f8 11 9a 1f c2 MK iterations: 148250 UUID: 2d841497-ce78-4a67-a778-efeb7d6e17ad Key Slot 0: DISABLED Key Slot 1: ENABLED Iterations: 860503 Salt: 1b a2 86 6a db 7a 99 7d d0 cc 73 bd fe c1 57 04 22 ec 25 79 18 22 12 68 6a 08 03 22 76 69 18 c2 Key material offset: 512 AF stripes: 4000 Key Slot 2: DISABLED Key Slot 3: DISABLED Key Slot 4: DISABLED Key Slot 5: DISABLED Key Slot 6: DISABLED Key Slot 7: DISABLED $ nova boot --boot-volume b9567416-f463-44ec-be70-c25977124614 --flavor 1 test $ nova delete test $ sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/mapper/stack--volumes--lvmdriver--1-volume--b9567416--f463--44ec--be70--c25977124614 test Enter passphrase for /dev/mapper/stack--volumes--lvmdriver--1-volume--b9567416--f463--44ec--be70--c25977124614: 010203040506 $ sudo cryptsetup luksClose test $ sudo cryptsetup luksDump /dev/mapper/stack--volumes--lvmdriver--1-volume--b9567416--f463--44ec--be70--c25977124614 LUKS header information for /dev/mapper/stack--volumes--lvmdriver--1-volume--b9567416--f463--44ec--be70--c25977124614 Version: 1 Cipher name: aes Cipher mode: xts-plain64 Hash spec: sha256 Payload offset: 4096 MK bits: 512 MK digest: e1 48 9b 16 0f 2c 12 b2 e3 0f 59 5b a0 69 cd 2b 77 a8 e5 06 MK salt: ad b8 a8 ad ac c1 99 d8 55 59 7f 16 77 e1 1d 80 0f 14 81 e7 59 ed 39 f0 ce 44 ae f8 11 9a 1f c2 MK iterations: 148250 UUID: 2d841497-ce78-4a67-a778-efeb7d6e17ad Key Slot 0: ENABLED Iterations: 715082 Salt: 8e ee fd f3 d1 e2 ad b4 4d 79 d4 43 ea 93 0b b1 46 41 4c 75 77 bf dc fa 2a dd f6 03 af 26 fc 32 Key material offset: 8 AF stripes: 4000