On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Arno Wagner > > The keys are storwed later on the LUKS container, but there is > irreplaceable information in the first 512 bytes (of which there > is no redundant copy), namely the salt at offset 132. All other > parameters could possibly be recreated with moderate effort, > but the 32 byte (= 256 bit) salt cannot. Surely the mk-digest-salt was of no more importance than the mk-digest. -- Roscoe --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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