Thanks for the feedback. It is really important to know how these things happen. It is a good idea to stay within the standard ASCII char-set for passwords and passphrases. (The "special char" requirement some people have is really, really stupid.) Then, on a German keyboard you only have the y/z swap, and that you usually can just test out. If in doubt, just make it one or two chars or words longer. Personally, I have even dropped uppercase letters. The problem with anything outside of standard ASCII is that the encoding is really messed up and variable. Unicode was supposed to solve that, but for this application it made things even worse. Regards, Arno On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 17:34:22 CET, Philipp Rösch wrote: > Sorry for the late late reply. > > It was indeed the wrong keyboard layout. Imagine that... > > I was about to give up when I noticed different German layout variations > on my live disk. One of those worked. Surprise. > > My case seemed strange because everything looked ok and there were no > errors anywhere, except that the volumes wouldn't unlock. > > PEBKC. > > -- 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 https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
