On 9 Jun 2018 16:35 -0400, from doark@xxxxxxxx (David Niklas): > My computer broke and I am now regressed to a 32 bit p4. > The problem is that my passphrase is said to be incorrect The first thing I'd do is to make absolutely certain that the passphrase you're entering is being given to cryptsetup in the same way as it was before. For example, you'd want to verify that the keyboard layout and locale encoding (UTF-8 vs US-ASCII vs ISO-8859-1 vs whatever) are exactly the same as on the system where you most recently were able to open the container. If you don't know what those settings were, this may take a bit of fiddling around. Running "locale" and "locale -a" would be a good start, as would verifying the keyboard layout; if Devuan is like Debian in this regard, start at /etc/default/keyboard and /etc/default/console-setup. For the future, once you've (hopefully) sorted things out, consider adding a second keyslot with a long passphrase that is strictly US-ASCII, strictly for recovery purposes, and saving a LUKS header backup somewhere other than within the container (obviously). You could even use a greatly increased iteration count for that one. That way, if all else fails, you can restore the header backup, type the passphrase into a text editor (so you can see what you're typing) and paste the passphrase into the prompt. Consider making a LUKS header backup now, before doing any further testing, if you don't have sufficient spare disk to make a copy of the entire encrypted container (which would be even better). That way, if you mess up further, at least you'll be able to get back to where you are now. -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael@xxxxxxxxxxx “The most dangerous thought that you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.” (Bret Victor) _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
