Am 05.05.2010 21:39, schrieb Daniel Troeder: >> With this password I get a "bad decrypt" so this explains why it >> fails. > If you cannot decrypt your keyfile (with openssl) then you have just > lost any way to decrypt your partition! > > But there is an idea in the man page of which I didn't think: did > you maybe change your users password? If so, you need to use the old > pw to decrypt the keyfile. If you can, then you can use the new pw to > encrypt the key again (make backups of the original file).
user-pw not changed, no ... > There is also the possibility your keyfile was corrupted somehow > (file system corruption?). Do you have a backup of the keyfile (and > your data:)? Restored the key-file from tape, no diff, no success. I have some images as backup, would have to look closer ... > BTW: a LUKS encrypted partition can have 8 keys (in so called "key > slots"), so that you can add a "fallback key" the next time, which > you store at a trusted place. I am pretty sure that I used several slots, yes. - Remember that I said: "I am not sure which HOWTO I followed" ? What if I didn't use aes-256-ecb? I will try some other ciphers .... ;-) Oh my, I luv documentation :-) S
