From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from v6.tansi.org (ns.km31936-01.keymachine.de [87.118.116.4]) by mail.saout.de (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 20:21:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gatewagner.dyndns.org (77-57-44-24.dclient.hispeed.ch [77.57.44.24]) by v6.tansi.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 1A3BF34FA001 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 20:21:25 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 20:21:19 +0200 From: Arno Wagner Message-ID: <20140417182118.GA26128@tansi.org> References: <53501984.9050004@web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53501984.9050004@web.de> Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Detached header List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de Have you read the section "NOTES ON PASSPHRASE PROCESSING FOR LUKS" in the man-page? Arno On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 20:12:20 CEST, Jan Janssen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm experimenting with LUKS detached header and I had the problem > that cryptsetup binary does not like regular files when provided > with --header (both luksFormat and open). When I make a manual > losetup with the same header file and provide the loop device to > --header everything works fine. > > According to the man page, --header is supposed to work for regular > files too. This should either get fixed or the manual page be > updated. > > Jan Janssen > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@saout.de > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. - Plato