Arno Wagner <arno@...> writes: > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 06:46:53PM -0500, .. ink .. wrote: > > [..] > > > > > but a function like this or any other > > > mechanism of header-protection would be nice to see as standard for LUKS. > > > Especially because the first keyslot is so likely to be corrupted by > > > partition > > > managers (should be aroud the offset of keyslot 0 where they start to dump > > > their > > > data?). > > > > > > > > has there been any study to find out which ones of the keyslots is most > > likely to get corrupted accidentally by various tools? > > I do not think there is enough data. And there is the additional > problem that corruption in others than slot 0 will not be noticed > by most users. You are welcome to search the mai,ing-list archives > and generate a statistic, of course. > [...] As soon as I received my new harddrive for the notebook (the one delivered constantly makes fast scratching noises at idle...), i will start to write a small script that backups the header on the disk and frequently compares this backup to the disk/partition header. If changes are detected it will give a warning plus the option to restore the header. Well - thats the plan. Will see what functions will make it to the script or will be added while writing it. It will be only a shellscript ( need glasses - I can't C very good ;) ), but i will post it here (maybe new thread) as soon as it is working. Sebastian _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
