Michael Böhm wrote: > I want to set up my linux box with root filesystem encryption using the gpg > multi key method with aes256.cipher and this does not work. > > I build everything as described in the readme file, encrypted swap works and > i can make a gpg keyfile and use these keys for a aes256 encrypted > partition. There are no problems with this so i think my setup is correct. I > can boot my rescue system and use dd, aespipe and gpg to encrypt my root > partition, this also works. To do this i have to use my gpg key repository > and enter my password. So i think my password, the keyfile and gpg should be > ok. If i try to boot the encrypted system and enter the password when asked > i get the message "Error: gpg key file decryption failed" I tried this > several times with different keyfiles/passwords, compiled and set up > everything again, it does not work. GRMPFT! > > What could be wrong? > > I use debian sarge, kernel 2.6.9, loop-aes 2.2d, aes-pipe 2.2e, util-linux > 2.12h, dietlibc 0.27, gnupg 1.2.6. Are you using a password that has different encodings in UTF-8 and 8859-1? Are you sure that keyboard key mappings are set the same? If I remember correctly .de keyboards use transposed locations for Z and Y characters versus default United States key locations. -- Jari Ruusu 1024R/3A220F51 5B 4B F9 BB D3 3F 52 E9 DB 1D EB E3 24 0E A9 DD - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
