Bug#365333: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#365333: cryptsetup incompatibility

[Jonas Meurer]

On 29/04/2006 Walter Hofmann wrote:
> I want to report on an incompatibility in cryptsetup which prevents me
> from using the current version. This is possibly related to bug #364529,
> but I cannot tell for sure.
> 
> I use cryptsetup to create an encrypted mapping with the following
> command line
> 
>  cryptsetup -c aes-cbc-plain -s 256 create 'root' '/dev/hda1' <key
> 
> key is a file containing 64 hex digits (i.e. 256 bits) and a \n.
> 
> The old version of cryptsetup, which worked, built the mapping just as
> if I had entered the key by hand. The new version seems to process the
> key somewhat differently so that the data is not properly decrypted -- I
> cannot mount the filesystem.
> 
> Unfortunately, I cannot say what the 'old' version of cryptsetup is. I
> still have the binary, but it doesn't support the --version option. It
> is a version that was in unstable around Nov 25 2005.

then this was still a plain cryptsetup version, without the luks support.

would it be possible for you, to test some older versions of cryptsetup?
interesting would be cryptsetup 20050111-4 (last version without luks,
currently in testing), 1.0.1-8 (first implementation with luks) and if
these work, also 1.0.1-16.

greetings
 jonas