[luau] Help needed with Loopback Encrypted Filesystems

[MonMotha]

Ho'ala Greevy wrote:
> howzit,
> 
> 
> does anyone here have experience mounting an encrypted file system without
> actually having the encryption passwd?  From what I've been able to
> discern, this doesn't seem possible.  But, I figure I'd throw it out to
> the list in just in case.

Of course it's not possible.  That would kinda defeat the purpose, wouldn't it? :)

> 
> btw, the machine in question is running Suse 8.2's crypto file system with
> a twofish-encrypted reiserfs partition.  I have root, but that doesn't
> seem to matter in this case.

Nope, root doesn't matter at all.  You *need* that crypto key.  If you lost the 
key, there is no way to retrieve the data short of attacking the crypto (and 
twofish is pretty damn strong).

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--MonMotha