From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Debian Boot
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:47:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121025104713.GB25897@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1351152433.8347.5.camel@oban>
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:07:13AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>
> Few precisions on Debian installer use of encryption. The ???default???
> encrypted setup is done using LVM, as:
>
> /dev/sda1 ??? /boot
> /dev/sda5 (logical partition, even though there's still room for other
> primary ones) ??? luks partition (using, afair, aes-essiv but I'm not
> completely sure) mapped as /dev/mapper/sda5_crypt
> /dev/mapper/sda5_crypt is a physical volume for LVM on top of which are
> a volume group (name from the hostname) and logical volumes
> (for /, /home and swap)
>
> So, in theory, cryptsetup luksDump /dev/sda5 should return the header
> for the encrypted partition.
About what I expected. He has by now sent me hexdumps of
sda5 and other partition starts, there is not even a trace
of a LUKS header in there. I think this is a complete loss.
Arno
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-25 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-24 16:05 [dm-crypt] Debian Boot Stéphane Bailleul
2012-10-24 16:33 ` Arno Wagner
2012-10-25 8:07 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2012-10-25 10:47 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
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