From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.saout.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.saout.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Tz4OCrvc67MI for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:47:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from v4.tansi.org (ns.km33513-03.keymachine.de [87.118.94.3]) by mail.saout.de (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:47:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gatewagner.dyndns.org (84-72-142-78.dclient.hispeed.ch [84.72.142.78]) by v4.tansi.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E8F081404001 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:47:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:47:13 +0200 From: Arno Wagner Message-ID: <20121025104713.GB25897@tansi.org> References: <20121024163348.GA25156@tansi.org> <1351152433.8347.5.camel@oban> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1351152433.8347.5.camel@oban> Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Debian Boot List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de 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 -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision. -- Bertrand Russell