Have you read the section "NOTES ON PASSPHRASE PROCESSING FOR LUKS" in the man-page? Arno On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 20:12:20 CEST, Jan Janssen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm experimenting with LUKS detached header and I had the problem > that cryptsetup binary does not like regular files when provided > with --header (both luksFormat and open). When I make a manual > losetup with the same header file and provide the loop device to > --header everything works fine. > > According to the man page, --header is supposed to work for regular > files too. This should either get fixed or the manual page be > updated. > > Jan Janssen > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. - Plato _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
