Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:57:58PM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: >> Anthony Scarpino wrote: >>> Darren J Moffat wrote: >>>> Anthony Scarpino wrote: >>>>> How does this differ from the import of the pool?.. Say for example >>>>> an incorrectly entered passphrase.. >>>> In the case where you don't present the correct key you just get >>>> garbage file data because it doesn't decrypt correctly. >>> So is the intent that when you import a pool and give the wrong >>> passphrase the the pool is still important, just the encrypted datasets >>> are garbage and unaccessable.. or that the import will fail?.. >> The import will succeed but encrypted datasets will not be usable (ie >> data will be garabage). > > That's really not user-friendly... What if user simply misspell the > passphrase? He won't be asked again, but will find garbage instead?
Agreed but to verify it was the correct one you need to store something known to do so and that leads to known plaintext problems. The tools will allow you to specify the key at any time it isn't limited to just doing it at pool import. -- Darren J Moffat
