From: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>
To: dm-crypt <dm-crypt@saout.de>
Cc: michael@ensslin.cc
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Loading the LUKS header from an external source?
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:58:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5323351A.8080408@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFnMBaSqvecOu6j-3ONKg2W=Ge+8TfdQwZQwfKtde=a+i-JrUg@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/14/2014 03:30 PM, .. ink .. wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Michael Enßlin <michael@ensslin.cc <mailto:michael@ensslin.cc>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> is there a way of loading the LUKS header from an external file, so that
> the first sector of the hard disk will actually be the first sector of
> the encrypted partition, and the whole disk will look like pure random data?
>
>
> yes,look at "--header" option in cryptsetup's documentation.
>
> From the terminal,type "man cryptsetup" and then look for "--header" entry in the "OPTIONS" section.
Exactly and using external header also allows to set data offset to start of the disk,
exactly what you want.
All is also described in release notes for 1.4 http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/Cryptsetup140
Milan
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