On Thu, 02 May 2013 09:19:32 +0200, [email protected] wrote: >>So, what would you plan for normal home users on disk failure for Disk >>Encryption? How to cope with it? > > > Hi, I guess what you are referring to can happen if you get bad sectors > where the luks header resides. This is a single point of failure in luks > whole disk encryption, to plan for this you must have current backups > (but most likely on another encrypted media, so there is always a tiny > probability that this is going to happen there too), and backup the luks > headers (see command "cryptsetup luksHeaderBackup"). See cryptsetup man > for security good practice regarding the headers backups.
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