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Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] LUKS header recovery attempt,
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On 04/24/2017 06:49 PM, protagonist wrote:
> However, I assume it is likely that a determined attacker running as
> root might be able to extract the master key from RAM if the encrypted
> volume in question is still open at the time of attack, so technically,
> there would be a way to do this without the password.

It's trivial. Just run "dmsetup table --showkeys" on the device.

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