From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tansi.org (ns.km10532-04.keymachine.de [87.118.102.195]) by mail.saout.de (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:48:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from gatewagner.dyndns.org (84-74-164-239.dclient.hispeed.ch [84.74.164.239]) by tansi.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F0052128001 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:48:32 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:49:45 +0100 From: Arno Wagner Message-ID: <20100204134943.GA15211@tansi.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] cryptsetup won't accept password after normal reboot List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:21:26AM +0000, wucherpfennig wrote: > First: I'm sorry for this strange topic behaviour, but I don't know how to > write real answers (I tried in the test list, but didn't work either). > > >I gahther this is a new installation and you would only lose > >a few hours of configuration work, correct? > > No. It was a fully working installtion. I wouldn't car that much about > this problem, but I wanted to backup my stuff last weeekend (old backup > was messed up). So basicly I'm standing here without any backup from the > last few years... So you unlocked it sucessfully a number of times and suddenly this does not work anymore? Any changes, like a different keyboard? > >For example if > >you have, say, 12 characters and 9 of them are the same on most > >keymaps, then you could try a direct brute force. > > I had the same idea last night. although my password is about 20 > characters long a brute force attack shouldn't take too long, because > there are 4 special Chars [eg ()_-] and 8 numbers. Letters shouldn't be > the problem, numbers too... Letters, except 'y' and 'z'. Numbers should be the same. Specials you will have to try some alternatives. Sounds doable. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier