[email protected]: > Booting into Kali (forensics mode) and unlocking the ssd failed. > > I typed out the passphrase to a text document, confirmed it was correct, > and pasted it into the prompt. > > "incorrect passphrase" > > This implies to me that the header was altered in some way. 2 days ago, my > battery has completely died...and my laptop is now for all intents and > purposes a desktop. Would that kind of power issue affect the ssd in such > a way as to alter the header? > > I regret not having a backup or hash of the header....not so much to > recover data, but at this point, to see if it has been altered...or if the > passphrase itself was changed somehow...but I'd rather not go down that > rabbit-hole of paranoia. > > There is always the slim chance I am continuing to miss-type > something....after all. > > On Sunday, July 5, 2020 at 6:03:12 PM UTC-4, haaber wrote: >> >> <snip> >>> I have tried this process with the other kernel options available as >>> well, to no avail. >>> >>> Any help or advice (successful or not) is appreciated. >> >> sounds daunting. So did you use a live-linux that has luks 'onboard' >> (like tails) ? That way you could distinguish between luks problems and >> qubes problems. It would also allow emergency backups before trying to >> unbug the actual qubes installation (for that question I cannot help). >> Do not play around before data is safe, or, if you can't resist, don't >> complain; If you need help with emergency-backup pm me, please. >> > I haven't used Kali, but make sure you're trying to decrypt the right device. It's actually a partition on the SSD you want to mount and decrypt, not the entire SSD device.
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