Re: [qubes-users] LUKS passphrase failures

[haaber]

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> 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.

[awokd]

joshk...@gmail.com:
> 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.

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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