On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:54:22 +0100
Nick Boyce wrote:
> On Monday 25 Jun 2012 09:16:23 Claudius Hubig wrote:
>
> > Nick Boyce wrote:
> >
> > > The installer uses 'dm-crypt' to encrypt the drive, rather than the full
> > > LUKS system - and 'dm-crypt' generates the encryption key directly from
>
Hello Nick,
Nick Boyce wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 Jun 2012 10:47:50 Claudius Hubig wrote:
>
> > If you do luksAddKey, you’ll have to enter one of the old
> > passphrases. After that, you can try unlocking the volume with the
> > new passphrase. If that succeeds, you can use luksKillSlot to remove
>
On Tuesday 26 Jun 2012 10:47:50 Claudius Hubig wrote:
> If you do luksAddKey, you’ll have to enter one of the old
> passphrases. After that, you can try unlocking the volume with the
> new passphrase. If that succeeds, you can use luksKillSlot to remove
> the first slot.
luksDelKey or luksKillSlo
Hello Nick,
Nick Boyce wrote:
> > You can check with
> > # cryptsetup luksDump
>
> Hmm .. well thanks for that command (I'm a novice) ... which confirms what
> you
> say - my single encrypted raw disk partition (containing the LVM mapped
> system
> volumes) does indeed have a LUKS header, w
On Monday 25 Jun 2012 09:16:23 Claudius Hubig wrote:
> Nick Boyce wrote:
>
> > The installer uses 'dm-crypt' to encrypt the drive, rather than the full
> > LUKS system - and 'dm-crypt' generates the encryption key directly from
> > the pass- phrase, rather than storing the encryption key in an o
Hello Nick,
Nick Boyce wrote:
> The installer uses 'dm-crypt' to encrypt the drive, rather than the full LUKS
> system - and 'dm-crypt' generates the encryption key directly from the pass-
> phrase, rather than storing the encryption key in an on-volume "header"
> protected by the pass-phrase.
I recently set up a Debian Squeeze system, using the installer's option to
encrypt the hard disk. It's working very well :-)
Good practice dictates that I should change the pass-phrase for this disk from
time to time, but my research ([1],[2]) suggests this is is not
straightforward because of
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