Christian Kujau wrote:So even if I (when creating rootkey.gpg) press Shift+5 and on the console a % is shown (German key mapping), and before encrypting / I do the same and also a % is shown, it may happen that when using % in the password it won't work? How can that be explained?
i dunno. double check keymaps, typos, etc. i tried here and using "%" in a passphrase really works.
It really had to do with keymaps. % $ ! work cause they seem to be at the same location in almost every US + international keyboards.
mind to send a patch?Thanks. I suggest to add these 2 questions and answers to the loop-AES README
It wouldn't be a lot of text, and I think that Jari would prefer his wording. He would have to verify it anyway.
and also possibly some observation about characters which should be avoided in the passphrase.this has nothing to do with AES and it is still unclear if my suspicion regarding "strange characters" is responsible for your problem here. try the same thing with /usr/bin/passwd and see if it is accepting "strange chacacters".
It has nothing to do with AES but it is related to it, and can cause a lot of headache.
Thanks,
Christian
- Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
