Re: "gpg key file decryption failed"

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"Christian (aka Neodaxus)" wrote:
> I'm on step 19 of "7.6. Example 6 - Boot from CD-ROM + encrypted root
> partition".
> 
> dd if=/dev/hda2 bs=64k \
> | /mnt/aespipe -e AES128 -K /mnt/rootkey.gpg -G / \
> | dd of=/dev/hda2 bs=64k conv=notrunc
> 
> returns "gpg key file decryption failed". I tried it more than 10 times
> and even recreated rootkey.gpg/changed the passphrase. The keymaps are
> identical.
> 
> What else could cause this problem?

Maybe because /mnt partition does not have statically linked gpg program.
aespipe program uses gpg to decrypt the key file.

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