On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:48:13PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: [...] > I don't suggest to hide the backup header. In fact the exact place of > it should be obvious (either fixed, or better: random but written to > the first header). I don't think random is doable. After all, people may want to put a filesystem in there. Or not. You cannot just use some of that space the layer above expects to be at its disposal. There is really only one place to put a backup: Right after the first header and keyslot area, everything else breaks proper layering. And that does not really help. Arno -- 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
