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.server123.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 22:14:47 +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 2564534FA001 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 22:14:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 22:14:46 +0200 From: Arno Wagner Message-ID: <20141016201446.GA10309@tansi.org> References: <5440118D.2040304@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5440118D.2040304@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] dropped passwords? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de Passwords do not get "dropped". Were there updates? Is the locale still the same? Also refer to FAQ item 1.2, last Paragraph. Unless the LUKS header was damaged, a changed character encoding is the most likely reason for this behavior. Arno On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 20:42:21 CEST, yarro ayte wrote: > I just spent 5 weeks in the hospital. Came back and found that > cryptsetup luksOpen on my offline machine doesn't recognize the > password I've been using for the past 5 years... > > WTF...??? > > Help, please!! > > Yarro > _______________________________________________ > 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 If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier