Re: please HELP - can't acces encrypted LVM after linux reinstallation.

[Aleksander Swirski <aleksanderswirski@xxxxxxxxx>]

I fully agree. I managed to retrieve all crucial passwords (fortunately I remembered most of them and was able to reset the rest). The web pages I was working with are on servers, and many materials in my e-mail history. Older documents and most of the photos on some DVD's. After initial shock now I accept what has happened and I decided to work on my personality to change attitude towards taking unnecessary risk. There is no place for that if I want to be professional in what I do.

I think this is a good idea, to try to put the message through, especially to less knowledgeable users, about the loose nature of the relationship between the pass phrase and the real cryptographic key, which does the whole job underneath.

Thanks to all.

On 29 October 2011 09:43, Arno Wagner <arno@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You are welcome. And you learned something valuable, I doubt this
will ever happen to you again. In fact I learned to be careful
with a similar experience (no crypto involved though). I think
you will find that most people have learned to be careful with
data in some similar way. So don't feel to bad about it.

Arno

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 07:14:27AM +1300, Aleksander Swirski wrote:
> it's my largest drive, but I will put this one aside and use another
> computer. i was tired, when i did that, didn't have clear mind. now I have
> no idea, how possibly could I fix this, but it all happened because of some
> mental pressure I felt. so I guess, now it's time to chill out. anyway, i
> feel bit better because You People :) cared enough to inform me and tried to
> help me. it's greatly appreciated.
>
> On 29 October 2011 06:20, Heinz Diehl <htd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 28.10.2011, Aleksander Swirski wrote:
> >
> > >  i made big mistake. at least I have plenty of space now ...
> >
> > Maybe, maybe not. I would strongly suggest that you make a low level
> > backup of your whole disk. Maybe there is something you didn't think
> > about right now, which suddenly comes up after a few days or weeks...
> >
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