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Am 05.05.2010 21:39, schrieb Daniel Troeder: |
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>> With this password I get a "bad decrypt" so this explains why it |
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>> fails. |
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> If you cannot decrypt your keyfile (with openssl) then you have just |
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> lost any way to decrypt your partition! |
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> But there is an idea in the man page of which I didn't think: did |
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> you maybe change your users password? If so, you need to use the old |
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> pw to decrypt the keyfile. If you can, then you can use the new pw to |
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> encrypt the key again (make backups of the original file). |
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user-pw not changed, no ... |
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> There is also the possibility your keyfile was corrupted somehow |
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> (file system corruption?). Do you have a backup of the keyfile (and |
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> your data:)? |
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Restored the key-file from tape, no diff, no success. |
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I have some images as backup, would have to look closer ... |
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> BTW: a LUKS encrypted partition can have 8 keys (in so called "key |
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> slots"), so that you can add a "fallback key" the next time, which |
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> you store at a trusted place. |
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I am pretty sure that I used several slots, yes. |
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Remember that I said: "I am not sure which HOWTO I followed" ? |
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What if I didn't use aes-256-ecb? |
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I will try some other ciphers .... ;-) |
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Oh my, I luv documentation :-) |
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