On 29 October 2011 05:24, Arno Wagner <arno@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As LUKS is specifically designed with anti-forensic features,
a "trace" would not help at all. In fact changing a few bits
in the keyslots in random locations is quite enough to
make the data inacessible permanently. As others have said,
without header backup there is no way.
Side note: Encryption does not remove the need for backup.
In fact, the FAQ discusses several encrypted backup options.
Arno
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 05:05:59AM +1300, Aleksander Swirski wrote:
> thank you for your replies. if someone knows, if it's possible to find some
> trace of old header under the new one ... please let me know. if it's
> definitely not possible ... please let me know. the crypt partition wasn't
> moved or resized, also the home logical volume, which I lost was
> 'continuous' and wasn't moved or resized.
>
> On 29 October 2011 05:03, Arno Wagner <arno@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 05:53:48PM +0200, Marc Ballarin wrote:
> > > Am Samstag, den 29.10.2011, 04:23 +1300 schrieb Aleksander Swirski:
> > > ...
> > > > I now realize what might have happened. As I explained I set up same
> > > > passphrase again on this crypt disk when installing new system. But I
> > > > suspect, encryption key underneath could be changed and LVM is now
> > > > scrambled?
> > >
> > > Yes, if you used LUKS this is exactly what happened. cryptsetup created
> > > a new, random master key and wrote it over your old master key.
> >
> > I wonder whether I should as a warning about this at the beginning
> > of the FAQ.
> >
> > Arno
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