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Re: cryptosetup luks info resources



On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It simply writes the LUKS header. Since ext3's header begins some 16-32KB
> from the start of the device, nothing is lost unless you start making
> a filesystem on the crypto device (/dev/mapper/...).

I thought the luks header spans about 4000 blocks (8MB or so) due to
the anti-forensic key splitting.

Perhaps it doesn't touch the first few blocks or so, and Marek's files
were well below that...

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