All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] How to recover partially overwritten LUKS volume?
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:42:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120826144249.GA2626@fancy-poultry.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKUckQK5SoaOMZJ4Ht104UUbcxNJUNJ44YR1uGfN5J5vVC6JeA@mail.gmail.com>

On 26.08.2012, András Korn wrote: 

> Could it be that cryptsetup tries to use keyslot #1 based on the
> passphrase I enter, realizes that it's corrupt and throws an error
> without ever trying keyslot #2? But apparently no, because specifying
> an explicit --key-slot also fails.

AS far as I know, the passphrase is probed against all keyslots, and
the one which matches is taken.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-26 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-25  6:14 [dm-crypt] How to recover partially overwritten LUKS volume? András Korn
2012-08-25 11:20 ` Arno Wagner
2012-08-25 15:07   ` András Korn
2012-08-25 18:59     ` Heinz Diehl
2012-08-25 20:21     ` Arno Wagner
2012-08-26 14:33       ` András Korn
2012-08-26 14:42         ` Heinz Diehl [this message]
2012-08-26 15:21         ` Arno Wagner
2012-08-26 15:45           ` András Korn
2012-08-26 20:51             ` András Korn

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20120826144249.GA2626@fancy-poultry.org \
    --to=htd@fancy-poultry.org \
    --cc=dm-crypt@saout.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.