On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 23:30:23 CET, Sven Eschenberg wrote: [...] > Now to your question, once you know the offset of the header: > 1.)Setup a loop device from your image (You can use an offset into > the image where your loop device starts with sector 0) see --offset > in losetup man page. Ah, yes. That would save copying it. > Inspect loopdevice if the LUKS Header now is on sector 0 > 2.)Try a cryptsetup luksopen in readonly mode Good idea. With that it may be reasonaly safe to work with the original disk. I still would make a full backup before. Regards, Arno -- 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 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
