Peter_22@xxxxxx wrote: > In the Alt+F1 console kbd_mode returns UTF-8 and can be set to ASCII mode > with no errors. However, neither mode can be used to decrypt the rootkey > made up in Knoppix. > All 3 runs are performed with kbd_mode -a and -u for ASCII and UTF-8 and > result in the same output. So no difference between both encodings. How do > they do that? Shouldn't it be different? At least for the special chars? I forgot to mention that you have to load new keyboard layout before it takes effect. As in: kbd_mode -a loadkeys /boot/default.kmap or kbd_mode -u loadkeys /boot/default.kmap -- 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/