Re: Bug in cryptsetup 2.3.0 (BitLocker key-file support)

Milan Broz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 20/02/2020 03:23, Arno Wagner wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 21:57:23 CET, Milan Broz wrote:
>> On 19/02/2020 21:13, Quentin Lefebvre wrote:
>>> The on-disk keyfile was the printed recovery passphrase provided by 
>>> Windows...
>>>
>>>  > So what is the exact content of your keyfile? Is there additional EOL,
>>>  > or it had some more characters there?
>>>
>>> ls -l <my_recovery_password_file>
>>> showed a 56 bytes file and
>>>
>>> hexdump -C <my_recovery_password_file>
>>> showed a trailing '\x0a' character added by my favorite editor.
>>>
>>> Removing it with dd(!) solved my problem...
>>
>> ok, thanks for the info.
>>
>> But I think we should perhaps process even this file (recovery
>> passphrase has a special format - if it is detected, we try to use it,
>> otherwise we parse it as a normal passphrase).
>> I think we can do this even if it is has an additional EOL there.
> 
> I would suggest giving a verbose warning in this case.
> Something like, "recovery passphrase detected, extra EOL chars stripped."

If it fails to open through a recovery passphrase slot, then code tries it as a normal
one (key derivation is quite fast here, so it is just a small delay) - so this
is really not necessary.

m.
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