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Re: LUKS encryption help

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On 10/11/21 05:50, detrito@tuta.io wrote:
> Hello friends, I'm sending this last email to inform you that I have given up on trying to recover the contents of my external hard drive and that I formatted it.


I hope you have implemented backups procedures, to prevent losing data 
in the future.


> Thank you to every single one of you who spared their time to try and help me.


You are welcome.  :-)


> On one last note, I should I drag attention to what seemed to be a bug on the boot screen that asked for my LUKS password: It considered backspaces as a normal character. I type my password and it shows an asterisk on the screen for every character I type - instead of deleting the asterisk, the backspace key created one more asterisk each time I pressed it.


When I boot my Debian machines with LUKS encrypted root filesystems, I 
see a bunch of time-stamped bootloader messages followed by the prompt:

     Please unlock disk sda3_crypt:


When I type on the keyboard, nothing is echoed to the screen.


David

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Re: Re: LUKS encryption help detrito@tuta.io - 2021-10-11 15:10 +0200
  Re: LUKS encryption help David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-10-11 21:50 +0200
    Re: LUKS encryption help David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-11 23:30 +0200
    Re: LUKS encryption help deloptes <emanoil.kotsev@deloptes.org> - 2021-10-11 23:30 +0200
      Re: LUKS encryption help David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-12 00:00 +0200
  Re: Re: LUKS encryption help Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2021-10-12 07:20 +0200
    Re: LUKS encryption help David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-12 18:20 +0200

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