The search with hexdump revealed a LUKS header at 195F0F600. Then I do the following: # losetup -o 6818564096 /dev/loop0 /dev/sda # cryptsetup luksDump /dev/loop0 (dumps the LUKS header to my utter joy) But when I try to open /dev/loop0 with # cryptsetup -v -f /mnt/usbkey/crypto.key luksOpen /dev/loop0 crypto This returns "...No key available with this passphrase.". What is happening? The file crypto.key has not been altered but cryptsetup is suggesting the passphrase does not match to key? The file crypto.key has not changed... Harald --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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