Re: Assistance required

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 14:09:05 CET, Michael Kjörling wrote:
> On 31 Jan 2023 10:58 +0100, from [email protected] (Sascha Sander):
> > But unfornutaley I need to know the previous passphrase to add a new one.
> > Is there *any* possibility to access the data?
> 
> Unfortunately, the general answer to this is no, there is not.
> 
> If it was possible to access the data inside a LUKS container without
> knowing a valid passphrase for the container, then that would
> completely undermine the entire purpose of having full disk encryption
> in the first place; so anything like that would be a serious design
> flaw.

I second that. What you are trying to do would completely
negate the LUKS security model if it was possible. 
Hence it is not. 

Regards,
Arno

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