Look into the FAQ under "What does the on-disk structure of LUKS look like?" Arno On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 04:41:33PM +0600, Alexander Konovalenko wrote: > 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 > -- 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
