From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tansi.org (ns.km10532-04.keymachine.de [87.118.102.195]) by mail.saout.de (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:57:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gatewagner.dyndns.org (84-74-164-239.dclient.hispeed.ch [84.74.164.239]) by tansi.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 222151218550 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:57:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:57:54 +0200 From: Arno Wagner Message-ID: <20101027185754.GA25811@tansi.org> References: <20101027141544.8754153etqb8q9s0@webmail.df.eu> <20101027143923.GA10534@fancy-poultry.org> <20101027155612.GA23215@tansi.org> <20101027162301.GA11949@fancy-poultry.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101027162301.GA11949@fancy-poultry.org> Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] valid passphrase not accepted List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 06:23:01PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 27.10.2010, Rick Moritz wrote: > > > Considering the amount of traffic on the list regarding issues like this, > > maybe future versions of dm-crypt should issue an annoying warning when > > creating LUKS-format mapped devices, about how a backup of the header is > > STRONGLY recommended > > No, it's not. Read the FAQ, especially item nr.2 and the answer > from Clemens: > > http://www.saout.de/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=LUKSFaq Aehm, that is the old, obsolete FAQ. You should not reference it anymore. The current FAQ is at http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions and in the cryptsetup source package. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier