Without checking: The salt? Arno On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 04:21:41PM -0400, Jamaal Speights wrote: > Thanks. > > When I do dmsetup table [name] --showkey > > I see aes-cbc-plain. Then 64 characters. I see the first 40 are the > *RIPEMD-160 > Hash* of my password. What are the last 24 characters? > > ripemd160_passphrase + ?????? > > thanks > > -j > > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Milan Broz <mbroz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 03/26/2010 12:38 AM, Jamaal Speights wrote: > > > I am curious about the cryptsetup remove function and its purpose after > > > rebooting a system. Is my system still vulnerable to someone else > > > mounting my encrypted file if I don't remove the mapping before I > > > reboot? When my system comes back up I don't see the mapping in > > > /dev/mapping/cryptfile . Also if I do cryptsetup to mount the image > > > again I have to re-enter the password. So whats the point of using > > > cryptsetup remove when shutting your system down? > > > > Remove key from memory? (google coldboot attack) > > > > Deactivate crypt mapping so underlying storage can safely deactivate > > devices (LVM for example)? > > > > Umount underlying filesystem if mappping is to file on it? > > > > ... > > > > Milan > > > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
