On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 21:57:23 CET, Milan Broz wrote: > On 19/02/2020 21:13, Quentin Lefebvre wrote: > > The on-disk keyfile was the printed recovery passphrase provided by > > Windows... > > > > > So what is the exact content of your keyfile? Is there additional EOL, > > > or it had some more characters there? > > > > ls -l <my_recovery_password_file> > > showed a 56 bytes file and > > > > hexdump -C <my_recovery_password_file> > > showed a trailing '\x0a' character added by my favorite editor. > > > > Removing it with dd(!) solved my problem... > > ok, thanks for the info. > > But I think we should perhaps process even this file (recovery > passphrase has a special format - if it is detected, we try to use it, > otherwise we parse it as a normal passphrase). > I think we can do this even if it is has an additional EOL there. I would suggest giving a verbose warning in this case. Something like, "recovery passphrase detected, extra EOL chars stripped." 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 https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
