Hi, i analysed the problem, that no masterkey can be found by cryptsetup, in this thread: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt/2451 In short: While trying to install an USB WLAN stick i had to shut off the PC several times (hard via powersupply switch). After trying to get the raid with the modified system decrypted again, i tried with alot of clean installs (LiveCDs of Fedora 8, Knoppix 5.x and Ubuntu 7.10; and installation of Ubuntu 6.06 an the new debian 4.02 distro) i came to the following conclusion: 1) my keyfile is correct (verified against backup) 2) my system reports a correctly working crypted luks volume (luksDump) on a working Softraid5 (mdstat ok) 3) stepping through the binary raid dump of the first sectors also showed me, there should be an encrypted masterkey I am sure, the problem is one of the following: A) the crypted volumes of such a system (softraid5 with lvm & LUKS) may get corrupt on powerloss - even if its not mounted (it shouldn`t be decrypted all times i shut off the PC). B) there is an incompatibility between the 1 year old versions of aes, sha256, dmcrypt (and maybe more?) and the actual ones spreaded by the repositories (debian etch stable) nowadays. Maybe a developer can help me, trying to locate the masterkey. I could send you a dump of my first MBs of the raid and the decryption key. Anyone who is able to analyse this, please post here. I want to know, if the masterkey is still there or already corrupted (so i can finally kill my beloved, encrypted data and may start with endless harddiskspace). And i need to know, what causes this corruption, because i wouldn`t do the same setup before the cause for the dataloss is clearified. Thanks in advance, DP --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx
