Marc de Verdelhan <mdeverdelhan <at> gmail.com> writes: > [...] > What I'm wondering is: What if a user (for instance: me) has a v2 > wrapped-passphrase file but try to mount its encrypted directory with > a version of ecryptfs-utils inferior to v104? Did you consider this > case? > After this adventure I can say that returning "ERROR: Your passphrase > is incorrect" when you run a "ecryptfs-mount-private" in that kind of > configuration may get some users to think they really have an > incorrect password and to give up, loosing their data. > At [the very] least you should put a very big warning on > http://ecryptfs.org/ to inform all the users in that situation (which > may occur again since Debian Stable has the version 99-1 of > ecryptfs-utils (https://packages.debian.org/stable/misc/ecryptfs-utils) > and is still maintained). > I have experienced this same issue today. I had ubuntu 14.04 with ecryptfs-utils 104-0ubuntu1.14.04.3. I reinstalled Linux Mint 17 in / and kept /home. As the installation ships with ecryptfs-utils 104-0ubuntu1 and my home actually had the rewrapped version using a random salt, it was saying my passphrase was incorrect and made me very nervous. Fortunately I upgraded all the packages and after reboot everything was fine again. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ecryptfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
