On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 05:01, Arno Wagner <arno@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > sorry, but you will have wiped the salt in the header, which > makes recovery impossible. You will also have wiped all keys > (they take about the first 8.5MB), which again does make recovery > impossible. In fact, any recovery from this would mean that > LUKS is badly broken security-wise. 8.5 MB? I thought a LUKS header usually takes only 2056 512-byte sectors, which is slightly more than 1 MiB. I wonder where does that belief come from. Almost all LUKS partitions I've been dealing with have been created by Ubuntu's debian-installer. So debian-installer's default must be the culprit. What's the recommended LUKS header size? -- Alexander _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
