Hi Arno, here the requested dump. Looks like the Master Boot Record with "55 aa" boot signature. The byterange of the luks mastersalt is basically empty. So all fucked up - I guess. BTW: What is your guess: Will my grandchildren be able to crack a 256-aes-xts file system. What is your guess? Should I long-term store the hard discs? Cheers, Bernd braegel1 ~ # head -c 1k /dev/md2 | hd 00000000 fa b8 00 10 8e d0 bc 00 b0 b8 00 00 8e d8 8e c0 |................| 00000010 fb be 00 7c bf 00 06 b9 00 02 f3 a4 ea 21 06 00 |...|.........!..| 00000020 00 be be 07 38 04 75 0b 83 c6 10 81 fe fe 07 75 |....8.u........u| 00000030 f3 eb 16 b4 02 b0 01 bb 00 7c b2 80 8a 74 01 8b |.........|...t..| 00000040 4c 02 cd 13 ea 00 7c 00 00 eb fe 00 00 00 00 00 |L.....|.........| 00000050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 000001b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 70 57 07 00 00 00 00 00 |........pW......| 000001c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa |..............U.| 00000200 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 00000400 -- Bernd Brägelmann FA für Radiologie Robert-Koch-Str. 42 - 28277 Bremen fon: +49 15141457796 PGP: BCA853F8 On 07/02/2016 06:14 PM, Arno Wagner wrote: > Hi Bernd, > > On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 12:42:27 CEST, Bernd Brägelmann wrote: >> Hi Arno, >> >> thanks for answering. I created the partition table within /dev/md2 and >> the raid is still working. > > Ok, so we ignore the RAID. > >> My current last hope is that the salt might be in a redundant part of >> the raid array. > > Those will have gotten synced immediately, RAID inconsistencies > live only for as long as they are in the write queue. No hope > there. > > Ok, the LUKS superblock (or what is left of it) will be at > the start of /dev/md2. Can you post the following (will > not compromise your datta, that is protected by the > passphrase(s)): > > head -c 1k /dev/md2 | hd > > This allows a manual look of what is left of the LUKS header. > > Regards, > Arno > _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
