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From: Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] luksHeaderBackup
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:03:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120814180328.GA12875@fancy-poultry.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKRxpusqkTWiqMN3wxcWNGN6RevZOihNT6bSNV=esXNtFEu1nw@mail.gmail.com>

On 14.08.2012, Two Spirit wrote: 

> Is the cryptsetup luksHeaderBackup equvalent to just doing a dd of the LUKS
> drive?

No.

> how would I know the exact total length. and I assume there is no offset
> for the header.

Look here:

http://wiki.cryptsetup.googlecode.com/git/LUKS-standard/on-disk-format.pdf

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-14 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-14 17:40 [dm-crypt] luksHeaderBackup Two Spirit
2012-08-14 18:03 ` Heinz Diehl [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-06-06 22:27 Ali Reza Sajedi
2010-06-07 12:37 ` Arno Wagner
2010-06-07 18:27   ` Ali Reza Sajedi
2010-06-07 19:14     ` Arno Wagner
2010-06-07 20:57       ` Ali Reza Sajedi

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