On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:07:13AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > Few precisions on Debian installer use of encryption. The ???default??? > encrypted setup is done using LVM, as: > > /dev/sda1 ??? /boot > /dev/sda5 (logical partition, even though there's still room for other > primary ones) ??? luks partition (using, afair, aes-essiv but I'm not > completely sure) mapped as /dev/mapper/sda5_crypt > /dev/mapper/sda5_crypt is a physical volume for LVM on top of which are > a volume group (name from the hostname) and logical volumes > (for /, /home and swap) > > So, in theory, cryptsetup luksDump /dev/sda5 should return the header > for the encrypted partition. About what I expected. He has by now sent me hexdumps of sda5 and other partition starts, there is not even a trace of a LUKS header in there. I think this is a complete loss. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision. -- Bertrand Russell _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
