From: Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Safe to remove keyfile before luksClose?
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:43:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131118104327.GA3094@fancy-poultry.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJcs+hn83k0x26pUv+m0V1j-NdNZm7=T1KTHrqBDpzHBr_+d9Q@mail.gmail.com>
On 18.11.2013, Johannes Omega wrote:
> I've a LUKS container that's opened from a keyfile stored on a USB stick.
> Is it safe to remove the USB stick once the container has been
> opened
Yes, it is. The keyfile is only needed once, to unlock the master key.
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2013-11-17 15:59 [dm-crypt] Safe to remove keyfile before luksClose? Johannes Omega
2013-11-18 10:43 ` Heinz Diehl [this message]
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