On 06.03.2010, Marek Stopka wrote: > Hi guys, I have forgotten password to my luks encrypted disk, I have > lost no data (yet :) ), because system is still running with unlocked > device, but problem is, that I have a scheduled hardware maintanance > window quite soon, so I was wondering is it somehow easily possible to > luksAddKey without knowing a password or recover password from memory No way. Do a complete backup of your existing data now, and you'll be able to recover your encrypted partition after a reformatting later. > or it will be much more easier to copy those data somewhere else and > create a new encrypted disk? It is like 12TB of data so I would really > prefer not to copy those data somewhere else, but if I will have to, I > can pull that off... Without the correct passphrase, and without any hackish memory manipulation and similar, the only way is to copy your data to a safe place and to recreate your encrypted device later. To unlock/decrypt the master key, you have to provide the correct passphrase first. > But I am wondering since key need to be in a memory somewhere there > could be a way... :) You can read here how it works: http://cryptsetup.googlecode.com/svn-history/r42/wiki/LUKS-standard/on-disk-format.pdf _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
