Ho'ala Greevy wrote:
howzit,
does anyone here have experience mounting an encrypted file system without
actually having the encryption passwd? From what I've been able to
discern, this doesn't seem possible. But, I figure I'd throw it out to
the list in just in case.
Of course it's not possible. That would kinda defeat the purpose, wouldn't it?
:)
btw, the machine in question is running Suse 8.2's crypto file system with
a twofish-encrypted reiserfs partition. I have root, but that doesn't
seem to matter in this case.
Nope, root doesn't matter at all. You *need* that crypto key. If you lost the
key, there is no way to retrieve the data short of attacking the crypto (and
twofish is pretty damn strong).
...
--MonMotha
