Apologies for replying my own post. I believe I found the not so happy answer for me in Dr. Wagner's monthly FAQ. Is it possible to provide salt manually? Implementing a simple logic may allow re-generating the original header in case something bad happens, but I admit it makes sense keeping backups of lhdrs somewhere safe. Thanks, Miklos On 12/02/2010 11:28 AM, Miklos Bagi wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm hoping to get directions with a 'small' recovery task. > > Given a partition that's known to be a broken LUKS one, lhdr is missing > (incl magic, chipher, hash, uuid, etc.), however there are some facts known: > - chipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 > - keysize: 256 bits > - offset: 2056 sectors > - most importantly: we have the master key file available. > > I have the suspicion that the first approx 10% of the partition have > been overwritten with random data. > What are the chances of recovering any data in the given scenario? > > Thanks in advance, > mB > _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
