From eb2b03699f3d50eea9d1a45a48f41e7417297719 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arno Wagner Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 12:14:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] updated ASCII version also git-svn-id: https://cryptsetup.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@701 36d66b0a-2a48-0410-832c-cd162a569da5 --- FAQ | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ index 58626e7..3e316ad 100644 --- a/FAQ +++ b/FAQ @@ -49,6 +49,15 @@ A. Contributors installers after a complete backup of all LUKS containers has been made. + NO WARNING ON NON-INERACTIVE FORMAT: If you feed cryptsetup from + STDIN (e.g. via GPG) on LUKS format, it does not give you the + warning that you are about to format (and e.g. will lose any + pre-existing LUKS container on the target), as it assumes it is + used form a script. In this scenario, the responsibility for + warning the user and possibly checking for an existing LUKS header + goes over to the script. This is a more general form of the + previous item. + LUKS PASSPHRASE IS NOT THE MASTER KEY: The LUKS passphrase is not used in deriving the master key. It is used in decrypting a master key that is randomly selected on header creation. This means that -- 2.7.4