Re: Loop-AES: Question for Password when none is needed

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Jari Ruusu wrote:
> Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
>> Do you get the password-question on the commandline with an unencrypted
>> key-file (with Linux)?
> 
> Nope. I tested it using encrypted key files that were stored at beginning of
> each floppy. Passphrase to decrypt each per floppy key file was read from
> encrypted file system using "mount ... -p3 3<clearpassword" inside a script
> that amd runs when it wants a file system mounted.
> 
>> If not, then the loop-aes-utils package from Debian-SID contains the bug.
> 
> Nope. mount -p3 makes password-question go away.

If you had read the first mail you should know that i know how to short
circuit the question at the commandline.

But that doesn't mean that that isn't a WORKAROUND for something that
should happen in the first place.




Bis denn

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cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.


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